Accessible Editions
Close-up of Danny Pope’s Eve Arnold Estate print of Marilyn Monroe with Montgomery Clift in the desert heat on the set of The Misfits, Nevada, 1960.
The NPG Monroe Print Release Extended
Special exhibition price available through Sunday 5 July
£448, usually £560 — saving 20%
Free worldwide DHL shipping
After a week of extraordinary heat, we’ve extended the offer for a few more days.
Eve Arnold’s Marilyn Monroe photographs are now on view in Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
To coincide with the exhibition, selected 10×12 inch Monroe Estate prints are available at a special NPG exhibition price through Sunday 5th July.
Each print is made by Danny Pope, Eve Arnold’s own printer, using the same authorised Estate process as the NPG exhibition prints.
Special NPG exhibition price: £448, usually £560
Free worldwide DHL shipping
Marilyn, Ulysses and the image Eve refused to simplify
Michael Arnold reflects on one of Eve Arnold’s most misunderstood Marilyn Monroe photographs, now on view at the National Portrait Gallery.
Michael Arnold, Eve Arnold’s grandson, on Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses and the trust at the heart of Eve’s portraiture.
Marilyn, re-seen
Wall text from Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London, highlighting Marilyn Monroe’s working relationship with Eve Arnold.
For decades, Marilyn Monroe was too often reduced to an image: the blonde icon, the sex symbol, the tragic star. But that image was not accidental. It was shaped by the Hollywood studio system, which controlled not only the roles Marilyn played on screen, but also the way she was presented to the world beyond it.
Marilyn understood the power of that image. She could summon it, shape it, perform it and use it. But she also fought to move beyond it: training with Michael Chekhov and later Lee Strasberg, educating herself through books and theatre, and eventually founding her own production company so she could have greater control over her work.
Eve Arnold understood that Marilyn was never simply the image made of her.
In Eve’s photographs, Marilyn is seen reading, working, resting, thinking, performing and preparing. She is glamorous, certainly, but never only glamorous. Eve’s camera recognises the intelligence behind the image, the discipline behind the radiance, and the woman inside the icon.
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery belongs to this wider reappraisal: a chance to look again at Marilyn not only as an icon, but as a woman of intelligence, agency and artistic ambition.
Museum-grade Estate prints, made accessible
Close-up of a 10×12 inch Eve Arnold Estate print of Marilyn Monroe at the casino in Reno, 1960. Produced by Danny Pope for the Eve Arnold Estate.
The Accessible Editions were created to make Eve Arnold’s work available to a wider audience while preserving the quality, authorship and provenance of an official Estate print.
Eve wanted her work to be seen and lived with by as many people as possible. The Accessible Editions carry that belief forward.
Each 10×12 inch print is produced by Danny Pope, Eve Arnold’s own printer and the only authorised printer of Eve Arnold Estate prints.
Danny worked closely with Eve during her lifetime and understands how she wanted her photographs to look. His prints preserve the depth, warmth and tonal subtlety of Eve’s work using a museum-grade archival pigment process on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta paper.
Accessible Editions are distinct from the Estate’s larger Collector and Platinum editions, but they are made with the same care, judgement and commitment to Eve’s vision.
What you receive
10×12 inch Estate print, edition of 250
Museum-grade archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta 325 paper
Estate stamped, hand editioned and captioned on the reverse
Printed by Danny Pope for the Eve Arnold Estate
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Eve Arnold’s marked-up contact sheet from The Misfits, Nevada, 1960.
Supporting Eve Arnold’s archive
Every Eve Arnold Estate print helps support the Estate’s wider mission: preserving Eve’s archive, digitising unseen material and bringing her work to new audiences.
Eve left behind a vast archive of more than 250,000 images. Much of it has yet to be digitised, catalogued or made publicly accessible.
Print sales help fund the long-term care of this archive, while also supporting exhibitions, research and scholarship that keep Eve’s legacy alive.
Each purchase is not only a way to own an authorised Estate print. It also helps preserve the work still waiting to be seen.
Praise for the Accessible Editions
The Accessible Editions have been praised by collectors, curators and photography lovers for their exceptional print quality, intimacy and fidelity to Eve Arnold’s vision.
“A terrific new performance of Arnold’s negatives”
“The quality of the print is better than I could ever have imagined, with Marlyn Monroe almost coming to life in the photograph. ”
“This feels like something very special. A real part of film and photography history. LOVE.”
Marilyn Monroe in a Chicago Airport washroom, 1955, on view in Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London.
The NPG Monroe Prints
The first eight prints below are the Monroe photographs selected by the National Portrait Gallery for inclusion in Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait.
Five of these images have not previously been released by the Estate in the 10×12 Accessible Edition format.
A ninth Eve Arnold Monroe image from the exhibition — Marilyn in the red truck on the set of The Misfits — is available exclusively through the National Portrait Gallery shop.
The selected 10×12 inch Estate prints below are available at a special NPG exhibition price through Sunday 5th July.
Each print is made by Danny Pope, Eve Arnold’s own printer, using the same authorised Estate process as the prints on display at the NPG.
Special NPG exhibition price: £448, usually £560 — saving 20%
Free worldwide DHL shipping
