Stunning Fashion Photography by Bert Stern in the 1960s

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Born 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, American commercial photographer Bertram Stern gained a job in the mail room at Look magazine after dropping out of high school at the age of 16.

Classic beauties taken by Bert Stern in the 1960s

Stern became art director at Flair magazine, where he learned how to develop film and make contact sheets, and started taking his own pictures. In 1951, Stern was drafted into the United States Army, sent to Japan and assigned to the photographic department.

His best known work is arguably The Last Sitting, a collection of 2,500 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe over a three day period, six weeks before her death, taken for Vogue. Stern published Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting in 1992. In it, he recounted being enchanted by her until a near-intimate encounter after the second day of shooting; he then realized that she was deeply troubled.

Stern worked as a photographer on Lolita and shot the publicity photographs of Sue Lyon. He has photographed Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Drew Barrymore and Lindsay Lohan (recreating The Last Sitting), among others, in addition to his work for advertising and travel publications.

Stern died in 2013 at the age of 83.

These stunning pics are part of his work that Stern took portraits of beautiful models in the 1960s.