About This Image

Signed, initialed, and editioned (AP 17/24) in pencil. Unmounted; paper size 13 x16 inches.

Eve Arnold began photographing Marilyn Monroe after the actress saw her pictures of Marlene Dietrich in Esquire. They met at a party and Monroe asked: "If you could do that well with Marlene, can you imagine what you can do with me?" So began their professional relationship, which, over the years, turned into friendship. Arnold photographed Monroe six times over the decade she knew her: The Misfits being the longest of these sessions. 

Seen here, Monroe rehearsing her lines in the Nevada desert before filming a challenging scene with Clark Gable.

In the collection of the Harn Museum of Art.

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