The photographs, taken by LIFE photographer Ed Clark, were shot in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park in August of 1950. Only four years before, the woman being photographed called herself Norma Jeane Dougherty.
The images were discovered as LIFE magazine underwent the daunting task of digitalizing each negative from every photo shoot.
In 2011, a photographer stumbled upon a folder of even more black-and-white negatives containing never-before-seen photos of the actress, in another session before she was well known.
The photographer for that shoot still remains unknown.
The only scrap of insight is in the form of a note attached to the photos, saying that one of the takes was ‘over-developed and poorly printed.’
The bombshell was discovered in 1946 by 20th Century Fox executive Ben Lyon, who noticed her modelling in magazines.
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