Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold (2024 edition, book)

When they met at a party in the early 1950s, Marilyn Monroe remarked to photographer Eve Arnold that she’d seen the photographer’s images of Marlene Dietrich. ‘If you could do that well with Marlene,’ Monroe said, ‘can you imagine what you could do with me?’. Through Arnold’s lens, Monroe’s multifaceted persona was preserved in images that continue to captivate the world. Arnold, an undeniable talent of 20th-century photography, captured Monroe’s complexity with elegance, authenticity, and a rare sensitivity.

A newly revised edition of Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold, originally published in 1987, is now released. This unique book, a collaboration between Iconic Images, ACC Art Books, and the Eve Arnold Estate, offers over 100 photographs of Monroe—some newly discovered and restored—unveiling an intimate and layered portrait of one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic icons.