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For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
One of Eve Arnold's shots from the set of The Misfits, 1960

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
With Simone Signoret, Arthur Miller & Yves Montand, by Bruce Davidson, 1960

Bert Stern for Vogue, July 1962
One of the last shots taken before her death.

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Lawrence Schiller
With Director George Cukor on the set of Something's Got to Give, 1962

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Willy Rizzo
Beverly Hills, 1962

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Gordon Parks, 1956

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Arnold Newman
Carl Sandburg and Marilyn Monroe, 1962

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Elliott Erwitt
With Thelma Ritter & Montgomery Clift on the set of The Misfits, 1961

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Bert Stern
Marilyn Monroe Black Dress, 1962

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Douglas Kirkland, 1961

Douglas Kirkland shoots Marilyn Monroe, 1961
The Port Erie, Ontario-born photographer was 27 years old

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
George Silk for Life magazine
With Edith Sitwell

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
A spectacular shot by Richard Avedon. In the accompanying text, Truman Capote called her "an untidy divinity."

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Ray Nolan
Cinematographer Milton R. Krasner makes sure that Marilyn Monroe is lit properly, on the set of All About Eve, 1950. All eyes were on Marilyn, early in her career.

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Sam Shaw
Richard Avedon and Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Seven Year Itch, 1954

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1953

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 22 February 1956
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For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Ed Pfizenmaier
Cecil Beaton shoots Marilyn
2 1/4 inch square contact print, 22 February 1956
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For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Philippe Halsman, 1959
#Jump!

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Ed Feingersh
Five Drops No 5
March 24, 1955

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Ed Feingersh
Ambassador Hotel, March 1955

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Ed Feingersh, March 24, 1955

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Ernst Haas
On the set of The Misfits, 1960

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Sam Shaw, 1957

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
George S. Zimbel
On the set of The Seven Year Itch, September 1954

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Eve Arnold
On the set of The Misfits, 1960
"But cult value does not give way without resistance. It retires into an ultimate retrenchment: the human countenance."
- Walter Benjamin

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Arnold Newman, 1962
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For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Philippe Halsman
Marilyn Entering the Closet, 1952
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For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
Milton Greene for Picture Post, 1956

And here's Marilyn Monroe with photographer Milton Greene, in a great 1955 shot by Gene Lester

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
With Tony Curtis on the set of Some Like It Hot
Photo: Richard C. Miller, 1958

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, a thread of my favourite portraits
William Claxton
With Ray Charles at a recording session for Frank Sinatra's Come Swing With Me, Hollywood, 1961