Actress Marilyn Monroe is wears blue pedal pushers and a matching blouse from Jax as she poses for the camera.  The image was taken as part of a series done in photographer Milton Greene’s new studio in New York City in September of 1954.

Originally released in 1987, the classic book Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation is now redesigned and reissued in the highest modern quality, featuring a blend of classic and newly discovered images of the legendary star. With intimate and candid shots accompanied by a detailed biography in Eve Arnold’s own words, Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation showcases the star in moments both public and private, amounting to a moving and personal meditation on a superstar’s life and legacy.

 Marilyn Monroe in the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom in New York City.

Over the Labor Day weekend in 1955 Monroe was on the North Shore, staying at Norman and Hedda Rosten’s cottage in Port Jefferson. Eve Arnold, who was then living in Miller Place, took Monroe to a playground in Mt. Sinai. Monroe brought along three bathing suits and a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses, which she kept in her car.

Over the Labor Day weekend in 1955 Monroe was on the North Shore, staying at Norman and Hedda Rosten’s cottage in Port Jefferson. They were artistic college friends of Arthur Miller’s, who’d Monroe had been seeing since she moved to Manhattan even though they were both still married at the time. 

 Marilyn Monroe in the bullrushes in Long Island, New York.

Marilyn Monroe resting her head while gambling with director John Huston during production of 'The Misfits. Arnold’s images from the set of her final film reveal the conflicted consciousness that first hid and then was trapped behind the mask of fame, showing Marilyn as by turns ordinary, anxious, hardworking, beautiful, and exhausted.

Marilyn Monroe at the gambling tables during the production of The Misfits. In what would be her last screen appearance, Monroe gave her best performance playing a vulnerable divorcee juggling the affection of three men, and posed for the most revealing and poignant photos for Arnold as her marriage to playwright behind The Misfits, Arthur Miller was slowly crumbling.

In 1960, Marilyn Monroe arrived in the searing heat of the Nevada desert to shoot The Misfits, a film written as a parting love letter to Monroe by her then husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, two long-established superstars, were cast to star alongside Monroe under the direction of the seasoned director John Huston. It would be the most expensive black and white movie ever made at the time.

In 1960, Marilyn Monroe arrived in the searing heat of the Nevada desert to shoot The Misfits, a film written as a parting love letter to Monroe by her then husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, two long-established superstars, were cast to star alongside Monroe under the direction of the seasoned director John Huston. It would be the most expensive black and white movie ever made at the time.

In 1960, Marilyn Monroe arrived in the searing heat of the Nevada desert to shoot The Misfits, a film written as a parting love letter to Monroe by her then husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, two long-established superstars, were cast to star alongside Monroe under the direction of the seasoned director John Huston. It would be the most expensive black and white movie ever made at the time.

In 1960, Marilyn Monroe arrived in the searing heat of the Nevada desert to shoot The Misfits, a film written as a parting love letter to Monroe by her then husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, two long-established superstars, were cast to star alongside Monroe under the direction of the seasoned director John Huston. It would be the most expensive black and white movie ever made at the time.

In 1960, Marilyn Monroe arrived in the searing heat of the Nevada desert to shoot The Misfits, a film written as a parting love letter to Monroe by her then husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, two long-established superstars, were cast to star alongside Monroe under the direction of the seasoned director John Huston. It would be the most expensive black and white movie ever made at the time.

Marilyn Monroe in the Nevada desert in 1960, going over her lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clarke Gable in the 1961 film The Misfits.

Robert Risko captures Marilyn Monroe's cheeky charm in this whimsical illustration for Time magazine in 1992. Risko's inimitable, hard-edged, retro-airbrush illustrations have been celebrated by and featured in numerous esteemed publications and adorned book jackets, video covers and movie posters.

Robert Risko captures Marilyn Monroe's cheeky charm in this unpublished illustration from 2014. Risko's inimitable, hard-edged, retro-airbrush style has been celebrated by and featured in numerous esteemed publications and adorned book jackets, video covers and movie posters.

Robert Risko captures Marilyn Monroe's cheeky charm in one of his whimsical illustrations for Vanity Fair. Risko's inimitable, hard-edged, retro-airbrush style has been celebrated by and featured in numerous esteemed publications and adorned book jackets, video covers and movie posters.

Marilyn Monroe hugs a pillow as she poses naked in bed for photographer Douglas Kirkland during a session on November 17, 1961. Kirkland, then aged 24, photographed the icon and sex symbol for his first major assignment for Look magazine, one of the most celebrated photo-shoots ever with the femme fatale. 

Marilyn Monroe hugs a pillow as she poses naked in bed for photographer Douglas Kirkland during a session on November 17, 1961. Kirkland, then aged 24, photographed the icon and sex symbol for his first major assignment for Look magazine, one of the most celebrated photo-shoots ever with the femme fatale.

Marilyn Monroe poses during an editorial photo-shoot for Look magazine in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles in 1953. This photoshoot would be the beginning of a beautiful friendship between the photographer and his subject. 

Marilyn Monroe at Milton’s New York studio at 480 Lexington. This was one of four images that the Franklin Mint used to create a Limited Edition porcelain Marilyn Monroe doll.

Marilyn Monroe lovingly snuggles with a Pekinese dog in an editorial photo-shoot or Look magazine at Greene’s studio, New York, NY, March 1955. Over the years Greene and Monroe formed as close friendship with the actress living at the photographer's family home on and off for two years before the pair formed Marilyn Monroe Productions. 

The Essential Marilyn Monroe compiles images across 50 sessions between Marilyn Monroe and her photographer and friend Milton H. Greene into one, luxurious book.  With 280 photographs, including many never-before-published and unseen images, newly scanned and restored classics, as well as images that have appeared only once in publication, Greene's Marilyn Monroe archive can finally be viewed as it was originally intended when these pictures were first produced more than 60 years ago. From film sets to the bedroom, at home, and at play, the book is a lasting tribute to the work of a great photographer and his greatest muse.

Actress Marilyn Monroe is wears blue pedal pushers and a matching blouse from Jax as she laughs for the camera.  The image was taken as part of a series done in photographer Milton Greene’s new studio in New York City in September of 1954.