The photographs include one from American snapper Bert Stern which captures Monroe two months before she died in 1962 the age of 36.
Three images of Hollywood film star Marilyn Monroe have been lent to the Victoria and Albert museum by Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish.
The photographs are being “presented together to the public for the first time”, the V&A said, and is the museum’s “largest temporary exhibition of photography to date”. Eve Arnold’s portrait of Monroe rehearsing her lines on the set of her final film 1961’s The Misfits American photographer Nan Goldin’s 149 Thanksgiving photographs, which celebrate her friendships and those she has lost, will be arranged floor to ceiling at the V&A.
Through “eight thematic sections, Fragile Beauty will explore themes such as fashion, reportage, celebrity, the male body, and American photography”.
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