With overtures of disharmony etched across her face, Monroe is pictured here, ‘Warming Up, Santa Monica Beach, 1962’ with a far more world weary expression than on a raft of previous photographic occasions, as her adoring audience is afforded a glimpse of their matinee idol in this off-duty pose. With a face and complexion masking a myriad of hopes and fears which followed her every thought and move from her rise to celluloid prominence and beyond the height of her fame, there’s much more to see by reading between the lens-captured lines in this image than a thousand that have gone before.

The windswept and possibly brow-beaten one-time Hollywood starlet and all-round golden girl seems miles away on this occasion, lost in deep thought; which for our money makes this brand new Spring 2014 giclee-mounted release, all the more appealing and moreover a must-have piece. Resulting in a recent collaboration between long-time Monroe photographic biographer and image library compiler, Edward Weston and acclaimed UK fine art publishers, Washington Green, just 295 editions of this slice of visual history are now available in this hugely popular format; which is why we urge you to move fast.