Magnum Poster: Marilyn Monroe, 1956 Fine Prints

Magnum Poster: Marilyn Monroe, 1956 Fine PrintsElliott Erwitt photographed Marilyn Monroe a number of times over her career and was well aware of her rocky temperament. But it wasnt his way to smarm up to celebrities, treating them the same as he would any other subject. Though he has taken some of the most iconic images of the last half century, Erwitt is always matter of fact about his process: You just walk around and look at things and try to put them in the frame. And hope that you will have

in all its manifest forms

and there isn’t a single photograph in which he appears looking at the camera

including a book devoted entirely to the artist's moustache

the text has since been debunked as a forgery by scientific consensus

Hoepker has captured many aspects of this remarkable period of transition

birds now became my guides as I looked for the beginnings of water

which is said to be the largest organized crime phenomenon in the world)

closing a chapter of US intervention in the region

advises Fred Astaire on his role as a photographer

all during a time of intense political

enjoying life’s simple pleasures: a side of the artist that had seldom been seen

The gentle interaction between boy and insect