In 1962, Marilyn Monroe posed nude for photographer Bert Stern in the Bel-Air Hotel, located in Los Angeles, to capture a set of images now collectively known as “The Last Sitting” for the fashion magazine, Vogue. After the photoshoot, Marilyn had requested that Stern send her the contact sheets of the photos he had taken of her for her personal review. When the photos were sent back, Marilyn had taken an orange marker and made crosses over her body in the photos which she felt didn’t match the image she had of herself, and the photos were kept with the orange marker, as seen in this image of Monroe. Noting this oversight is important in her story arc as an icon because over ten years prior, she was not given any. Monroe’s nude photos were advertised in the first edition of Playboy magazine in 1953, but she had never met Hugh Hefner nor consented to the use of her photos in said magazine. Photographer Tom Kelley paid Monroe fifty dollars for the photoshoot in 1949, but that was the only payment she received for them. Kelley had sold her photos, for eighteen times the amount which Monroe was paid, to be used in a pinup calendar, where Hefner bought the rights to her nudes from the company and then used the rising movie star’s popularity to draw in men to buy his magazine.