India, June 13 -- For an actor who acted in 23 films before she died aged 36, Marilyn Monroe's name is enough to draw the crowds - and the sponsors - even today, 64 years after her demise. She also remains a muse unlike any other.

This year alone, as part of the centenary celebrations of her birth anniversary, ACC Art Books has released Marilyn Monroe 100, an oversized volume of gold-gilded pages with photographs of Monroe taken by 17 photographers who documented her between 1945 and 1962, including Henri Cartier Bresson, Eve Arnold and Cecil Beaton among others.

Abrams Books released The Marilyn Monroe Century, a "visual biography" featuring hitherto unreleased photographs of the actor taken by the photographer Bruno Bernard, while Pen...