Marilyn Monroe during the filming of *The Seven Year Itch,* in New York (top) and Los Angeles (above), 1954.

Monroe and Billy Wilder on the set of *The Seven Year Itch,* Los Angeles, 1954.

With Joe DiMaggio at the premiere of *The Seven Year Itch,* New York, 1955.

With Arthur Miller on the Queensboro Bridge, New York, 1957.

*Top,* with Richard Avedon in his photography studio, New York, 1954; *above,* with Tom Ewell on the set of *The Seven Year Itch,* New York, 1954.

At her and Miller’s home in Roxbury, Connecticut, 1957.

*Top,* with Wilder in Avedon’s studio, 1954; *above,* on the set of *The Seven Year Itch,* Los Angeles, 1954.

At Idlewild Airport, later known as John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, 1954.

A letter from Shaw to Monroe, postmarked December 7, 1954.

With Shaw, photographed by Bruno Bernard at the Twentieth Century Fox studios, Los Angeles, 1954.

Mad About the Girl

A new coffee-table book collects the photographer Sam Shaw’s never-before-seen pictures of his longtime friend and muse, Marilyn Monroe

A white dress. A subway grate. A billowing skirt. Put them together and you’ve got Marilyn Monroe. Impersonators in Las Vegas follow the formula. In Blonde, the actress Ana de Armas does, too. But there’s a fourth element: the man with the camera who captured what The Hollywood Reporter’s Irving Hoffman once called “the shot seen ’round the world.” Sam Shaw.

Born in New York’s Little Italy in 1912, and raised there, Shaw befriended Monroe on the set of director Elia Kazan’s 1952 Western, Viva Zapata!, starring Marlon Brando. Shaw was on assignment shooting an in-depth photo essay on the making of the film for the men’s magazine Argosy. Monroe was Kazan’s sweetheart. “I too thought she was a beautiful, dumb blonde,” he said of his first impression. He quickly stood corrected.