Marilyn ... the word instantly evokes glamour, charm, voluptuous beauty, but also an alluring childlike vulnerability. It's precisely this multifaced and complex appeal that created her incredible popularity and ensures her continuing fame. Each of the various photographers she worked with cultavited a different side of Marilyn's beauty and personality.

This is more than a collection of her iconic images. Here are the firsthand accounts by some of Marilyn's most trusted photographers telling what it was like to photograph this legend: Henri Cartier-Bresson, André de Dienes, Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon and Milton Greene.