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Pulitzer-prize winning 94 year-old photographer Eve Arnold has released a few previously unseen pictures of screen legend Marilyn Monroe. Arnold released some other exclusive as-then unseen photos of Monroe about a year and a half ago. She had a close relationship with the tragically departed star and her pictures are said to show Marilyn as a vulnerable and sympathetic subject.
The photos will be seen for just a few weeks at select galleries in the UK:
The unposed photographs capture the star in her private moments; in front of a mirror, on a plane and in bed.
Limited edition prints have been released to selected galleries across the UK of the eight pictures from the collection of world renowned photographer Eve Arnold.
Now 94 the Pulitzer Prize winner built a bond of trust with the star which shows itself in the intimate shots.
The collection is being opened today at a Marilyn-themed evening event at the Meller Gallery in Witney, Oxfordshire and will be available only until Christmas.
Only a handful of other galleries across the UK are showing the pictures as only 495 prints have been made of each one.
Ms Arnold worked with the star for over a decade and said: “She trusted me and she was a joy to photograph. She liked my pictures and was canny enough to realise that they were a fresh approach to presenting her.
“By seeing Marilyn through photographs – the only way most people ever saw her – it may be possible to get some idea of how she saw herself and perhaps to glean some insight into the phenomenon that was Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn died in 1962 at the age of 36. Her death was ruled an probable suicide with sleeping pills, although there are rumors that she was murdered in a conspiracy. She would be 80 if she were still alive today.
The images shown here were found on The Daily Mail website and are said to be the new photos. I’m not sure if all of them are new because I found other versions of the Marilyn header picture in black and white, and there are posters available of the picture of her lying in bed.
All photos copyright Eve Arnold.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Marilyn Monroe, Photos
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She really was amazingly beautiful.
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The headline picture is wonderful. Thanks forposting this.
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Yawn. Sorry, just find Blondes boring and overrated. Also, find the fascination with them racist. Aren’t Mondays fun?
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I’d say turn her into a brunette or a redhead and I’s still say the same thing. Her face is just gorgeous, sexy and pretty all at the same time!
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She’s a classic beauty, even though I do agree with Domidroid!
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Not saying she wasn’t beautiful, just more beautiful as Norma Jean, before Hollywood turned her into a bauble.
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There was a really sweet vulnerability about her. I agree with Domidroid…I liked her better as Norma Jean before everyone tried to mold her and make her into a product. She seemed so lost after that.
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Oops, misunderstood. I agree with that statement as well. Norma Jean is much better than here. I feel bad that she was so vulnerable and people turned her into something she was not. She suffered, unfortunately, for it.
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I see more than physical beauty in this woman. I see a woman who wanted all of her life to be loved and worked hard to get that…and failed. A tragedy. But a beautiful legacy. Her photos are all over my walls because she deserves to be remembered.
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