Bert Stern had been a highschool-dropout, and after being a photographer in the military, got a job at Look magazine working in the mailroom where he networked and found a friend in a photographer for the magazine, Stanley Kubrick, sometime following World War I. Kubrick was adapting Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov into a movie in the 1960s and had Stern take promotional pictures of the actress Sue Lyon for the movie poster. Stanley Kubrick is a big name in Hollywood producing blockbuster movies including an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining and the classic A Clockwork Orange, but his career took off starting with his film Lolita, which Stern had taken the promotional movie poster shot that brought people to the movie. Stern’s career started with capturing a forbidden pedophilic aspect of sexuality in Lolita, and being a middle-aged man like the main character, he was able to effectively produce images which portray/show the male gaze of a young,adolescent girl as through the main character’s eyes. Lolita is sexualized on the poster with red heart sunglasses and she is sucking on a red lollipop which plays on innuendo and speaks to her age in that she is still a child. Stern’s capacity for capturing sexuality on camera matured as his career gained speed which led to him to photographing Monroe for Vogue to produce this image.