Joyful one centesimal Birthday, Larry Burrows and Marilyn Monroe

The legendary battle photographer Larry Burrows would have turned 100 this week. So, too, Marilyn Monroe. Three pictures of her, by Burrows, seem within the National Portrait Gallery present that opens in London subsequent week. Burrows’s son, Russell (the husband of the late Barbara Baker Burrows, a longtime image editor at LIFE), wrote this piece for us.

By Russell Burrows

She by no means went away, however this Spring we’re surrounded by photos of her –– Marilyn Monroe would have been 100 on the primary of June.

She was captured by each influential photographer of her day, however there are nonetheless some surprises. Larry Burrows, my father, is amongst them.

Burrows, who went on to develop into maybe the signature photographer of the Vietnam War, was assigned by LIFE journal in 1956 to document the British response to Monroe when she arrived in London with playwright Arthur MIller to star alongside Laurence Olivier within the movie The Prince and the Showgirl. Several of Burrows’ pictures from her time within the UK shall be on present on the National Portrait Gallery in London when it opens its Marilyn Monroe summer time exhibit subsequent week : https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2026/marilyn-monroe-a-portrait]

In Suez, Lebanon, and the Congo, Burrows coated battle earlier than spending 9 years in Vietnam. But for 25 years, he additionally photographed actors, authors, artists, and politicians.

He died, together with fellow photographers Henri Huet, Kent Potter, and Keisaburo Shimamoto, when their helicopter was shot down over Laos on February 10, 1971.

Larry Burrows was born in London on May 29, 1926. This can be his one centesimal birthday too.

Russell Burrows