Slim Aarons~ Ed Baird~ Baron~ Antony Beauchamp~ Bruno Bernard~ Bill Burnside~ Leo Caloia~ Edward Clark~ 
David Conover~ Andre de Dienes~ Nat Dillinger~ John Engstead~ John Florea~ Philippe Halsman~ Potter Heweth~ 
George Hurrell~ Joseph Jasgur~ Tom Kelley~ Gene Kornman~ Richard C. Miller~ Earl Moran~ Earl Theisen (Potato Sack)~ Lazlo Willinger~ Garry Winogrand~ Raphael Wolff~ Jerome Zerbe~ 

"It's kind of funny. You smile for the camera, you hold very still, you act as if you're having a good time ~ but it's a day when your really having terrible cramps. I guess I shouldn't say this, but sometimes modeling seemed so phony and fake I just had to laugh. They thought that was great, they had a great smile from you, and they just snapped away, thinking that, well, I was having a good time. Sure, sometimes it was fun. But modeling can also be a little crazy. I once asked why I had to wear a bathing suit for a toothpaste ad. He looked at me as if I was some kind of crazy!" ~ Marilyn Monroe

"Finding a photographer who wanted me as a model was easier than finding one who could pay more than a promise." ~MM

"Her pretty face was all that impressed me and I still wonder what transformed this sweet young thing into the superstar and sex symbol of a generation." ~ John Engstead photographed her 1947

"She did the same routine Harlow did. She arrived wrapped in something and, all of a sudden let it fall.
I presume the idea was to get you going. Well, they were exhibitionists." ~ George Hurrell

"When your young & healthy, a little hunger isn't too important." ~MM

"I worked with Marilyn Monroe. When she saw a camera ~ any camera, she lit up and was totally different. The moment the shot was over, she fell back into her not very interesting position." ~ Laszlo Willinger

"Even people who had been around and around and around in Hollywood still fell for this 'Help me' pose."
~ Laszlo Willinger

"I've tried to pick up all the camera experience I can around the photographers who've used me." ~MM

"They think they arrange me to suit themselves, but I use them to put over myself." ~MM

~Emmeline Snively - Head of the Blue Book Modeling Agency

"She looked a fright at first, but my, how she worked!"

"Girls ask me all the time how they can be like Marilyn Monroe, and I tell them, if they had one-tenth of the hard work and gumption that girl had, they'd be on their way."

"She was a clean-cut, American, wholesome girl - too plump, but beautiful in a way. We tried to teach her how to pose, how to handle her body. She always tried to lower her smile because she smiled too high, and it made her nose look a little long. At first she knew nothing about carriage, posture, walking, sitting or posing. She started out with less than any girl I ever knew, but she worked the hardest...She wanted to learn, wanted to be somebody, more than anybody I ever saw before in my life."