HarperCollins Publishers Inc Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis

There have been many Marilyn photo booksbut nothing like this. Australian-born curator and preservationist David Wills has accrued one of the worlds largest independent archives of original Marilyn Monroe photographs.Now, in Marilyn Metamorphosis, he has gathered the work of every major Marilyn photographerand dozens of unknownsto create the most dazzling portfolio of images from every period in Marilyn Monroes life, from her earliest sittings in 1942 till just weeks before her death two decades later. With more than three hundred full-bleed photosincluding countless luminous, unseen color photos from the very start of her career Marilyn Metamorphosis chronicles her meteoric rise from a humble catalog model to one of the most recognized faces in history.No other book even comes close.