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 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.

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 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.

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 in the bullrushes in Long Island, New York.

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. 

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.

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

Two young models check their make-up backstage at a local fashion show at the Abyssinian Church in Harlem, New York City in 1950.

Model Charlotte Stribling (also known as Fabulous) backstage at a local fashion show at the Abyssinian Church in Harlem, New York City in 1950.

American singer and musician James Brown being interviewed after a concert in the Apollo in Harlem where the slogan "Black is Beautiful" was introduced, 1968.

Eve Arnold's photographs of 1950s Harlem capture a vibrant community at the centre of the civil-rights movement. The fashion show prominently featured in this selection was held in a deconsecrated Abyssinian Church, part of a series of events spotlighting local black designers and models both celebrating their culture and protesting the white-dominated fashion industry's neglect.

Eve Arnold's photographs of 1950s Harlem capture a vibrant community at the centre of the civil-rights movement. The fashion show prominently featured in this selection was held in a deconsecrated Abyssinian Church, part of a series of events spotlighting local black designers and models both celebrating their culture and protesting the white-dominated fashion industry's neglect.

In 1979, Eve Arnold became one of the first Western photographers to enter China at the age of 67. Taking extended trips over five months, she had almost unlimited access to travel across the mainland, and covered 40,000 miles. With an interpreter as her sole companion, she meticulously documented China's vast and various landscape and the experiences of its people, resulting in a diverse and beautiful photographic portrait of the country.

In 1979, Eve Arnold became one of the first Western photographers to enter China at the age of 67. Taking extended trips over five months, she had almost unlimited access to travel across the mainland, and covered 40,000 miles. With an interpreter as her sole companion, she meticulously documented China's vast and various landscape and the experiences of its people, resulting in a diverse and beautiful photographic portrait of the country

American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in Chicago, Illinois in 1962.

American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X giving a speech at a Nation of Islam rally, Washington, USA, 1961.

German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich at the Columbia Records recording studio in New York City, November 1952.

German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich smoking a cigarette at the Columbia Records recording studio in New York City, November 1952.