Reprise

Reprise (pronounced ri-prahyz or ruh-preez)

(1) In law, (usually in the plural reprises), an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like (also spelled reprises).

(2) In music, a repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.

(3) A recurrence or resumption of an action; To return to an earlier (often first) theme or subject.

(4) To execute a repetition of; repeat.

(5) In fencing, a renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.

(6) A taking by way of retaliation.

(7) To take (something) up or on again (obsolete, transitive form).

(8) To recompense; to pay (obsolete).

(9) In admiralty law, a ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

(10) In masonry, the return of a molding in an internal angle.

1350–1400: The late fourteenth century noun in the sense of "an annual deduction from charges upon a manor or estate" gained its meaning from the thirteenth century Old French reprise (act of taking back), the feminine of repris, past participle of reprendre (take back), from the Latin reprendere (pull back, hold back).  The meaning "resumption of an action" dates from the 1680s while the musical sense of "a repeated passage, act of repeating a passage" has been in use since 1879.  Reprise as a verb dates from the early fifteenth century as reprisen (begin (an activity) again), from the Old French repris, from the Latin reprehendere (to blame, censure, rebuke; seize, restrain ( literally "pull back, hold back).  Obsolete in this sense, the the modern meaning is "to repeat a (theatrical, musical etc.) performance" dates only from circa 1964, a presumably new formation from the verb. The familiar verbs (used with object) are reprised and reprising.

Blonde on Blonde

Bert Stern’s (1929-2013) photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) was commissioned by Vogue magazine and shot over three days, some six weeks before her death.  In book form, the images captured were compiled and published as The Last Sitting (first edition, William Morrow and Company (1982) ISBN 0-688-01173-X).

Stern reprised his work in 2008 with Lindsay Lohan, the photographs published in February 2008’s spring fashion issue of New York magazine.  Stern chose the medium of forty-six years earlier, committing the images to celluloid rather than using anything digital.  The reprised sessions visually echoed the original with a languorous air though the diaphanous fabrics were draped sometimes less artfully than all those years ago.  He later expressed ambivalence about the shoot, hinting regret at having imitated his own work but the photographs remain an exemplar of Lohanary.