As a photographer, Eve Arnold was known for getting beneath the surface of her subjects, for capturing something of the real person hidden behind the persona. In 1961, Magnum Photo agency was given exclusive access to the set of ‘The Misfits’, a film starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. Eve Arnold didn’t know it at the time, but what she photographed was to be the last movie completed by Marilyn Monroe and her co-star Clark Gable. Sometimes Arnold was a fly on the wall, revealing an unseen side of these cultural icons. Other times she asked them to pose for her camera in-between takes. Her photographs are some of the most intimate and sensitive shots of Hollywood icon Monroe.
