Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her birthday 🎂
📷 Ed Feingersh, 1955
“Her fame increases, & as it does so we see how far she depended on, and excelled in, photographs - not movies. She is funnier in stills, sexier, more mysterious & protected against being. ”
- David Thomson

On Marilyn Monroe's birthday, my favourite photos.
Marilyn with George Cukor on the set of her last film, Something's Got to Give
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1962

Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller by Bruce Davidson, 1960

Marilyn Monroe backstage at MSG
📷 Ed Feingersh, March 30, 1955

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, my favourite photos
Philippe Halsman
Marilyn Entering the Closet, 1952

Marilyn Monroe with photographer Milton Greene, in a great 1955 shot by Gene Lester. Many photographers seemed to have a real rapport with Marilyn; they speak much more highly of her than the directors who worked with her.

Len Steckler
Marilyn Monroe - the Visit, December 1961
Marilyn dropped in to Steckler's apartment to visit his friend Carl Sandburg.
"She said 'I am sorry I am late. I was at the hairdressers, matching my hair to Carl's'."

Marilyn Monroe by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1953

And from the same photoshoot, I believe, Marilyn Monroe & Alfred Eisenstaedt together.

Marilyn Monroe by Milton Greene for Picture Post, 1956

This shot of Marilyn Monroe is one of my favourite Eve Arnold photographs. It's from the set of John Huston's The Misfits, 1960.

Marilyn Monroe by Arnold Newman, 1962

Elliott Erwitt's wonderful shot of Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter & Montgomery Clift on the set of The Misfits, 1961

Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, May 6, 1957
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Marilyn Monroe & Tony Curtis on the set of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot
📷 Richard C. Miller, 1958

Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1956
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Marilyn Monroe by Ed Feingersh, Ambassador Hotel, March 1955

Cornell Capa was part of the Magnum Photos team (9 photographers!) on the set of John Huston's The Misfits in Nevada, 1960. I love this shot of Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe.

One of Philippe Halsman's best #jump! photos, of Marilyn Monroe. It made the cover of the November 9, 1959 issue of Life magazine.

Philippe Halsman & Marilyn #jump!
1954

For Marilyn Monroe's birthday, my favourite photos
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1961

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

And another great process shot: Dom Perignon & Frank Sinatra for Marilyn Monroe & Douglas Kirkland.

Kirkland's photographs & his story of that shoot make up this 2015 book, An Evening With Marilyn/1961
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