Milton's Marilyn - The Photographs of Milton Greene

Milton's Marilyn is the most beautiful, the most erotic, and most personal existing photographic book on Manlyn Monroe (1926-1962).The world premiere of this book took place in 1994 at Schirmer/Mosel, when this compendium of sensational Marilyn Monroe photographs by Milton H Greene was first published after the long dispute over Marilyn's estate. Milton H Greene had shot them between 1953 and 1957, when Marilyn Monroe's beauty was in full bloom and her world success at its peak.
Milton H Greene (1922-1985), the creator of the Marilyn icons presented here, was already a highly popular star photographer, world famous for his front-page photographs in Look and Life magazines, when he first met Marilyn Monroe in 1953. In the years that followed he not only became her exclusive photographer but also her artistic advisor, her agent, and her business partner. Together they founded Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., which produced the film classics Bus Stop and The Prince and the Showgirl.
Their personal fnendship and business partnership came adrift when Marilyn's marriage with Arthur Miller broke up in 1957. Greene, embittered by it retired into private life, taking his treasure trove of photographs with him. The dispute over his inheritance after his demise prevented them from being published until 1994.