Eve Arnold on the set of The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe. © Photographer unknown–perhaps Robert Penn
While we are on the subject of still photographers working on images of actors and scenes while a film is being shot , (See our post below about Bob Willoughby) undoubtedly the most famous of that genre was on the set of The Misfits, a John Huston film starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter. Huston invited members of the famed photo agency “Magnum” to have freedom on the set to shoot the dynamic scenes behind the scenes. They mostly took photographs of the actors in and out of their film roles.
The famous group included Bruce Davidson, Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Cornell Capa, Robert Penn and Ernst Haas. So many of their images became famous, and books have been written about that collaborative photographic project.
Here is a link where you can see some of those photos: Phaidon link The Misfits. Phaidon published a book called The Misfits. This link is about when photographer Eve Arnold met Marilyn Monroe.
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