The most honest picture ever taken of Marilyn Monroe' has been sold for £77,500 at Sotheby's .
The most honest picture ever taken of Marilyn Monroe' One of fashion’s most powerful tools is it ability to transform our perspective in a matter of moments. Open a fashion magazine hating pie-crust blouses, put it down with the overwhelming urge to drop everything and hunt one down like your life depends upon it. There’s probably no better medium for challenging our perceptions of what looks good than fashion photography. A fact recognized by Sotheby’s who are auctioning off a selection of era-defining images today - including a shot of supermodels rejected by Anna Wintour, a portrait considered 'the most honest photograph ever taken of Marilyn Monroe' and more recent shots such as Miles Aldridge’s sumptuously colorful photographs. I t’s a beautiful image but American Vogue , who had commissioned the shoot, ended up not using it because the editor Anna Wintour thought it was too controversially casual. “They look so at ease and so themselves,”