Photographer who captured Marilyn dies

Pioneering photojournalist Eve Arnold, best known for her intimate shots of Marilyn Monroe, has died at the age of 99.

Arnold died peacefully in her sleep at a nursing home in London.

Arnold made her name from photographs of a variety of people, from rich and famous to poor and unknown.

Her revealing and intimate shots of Monroe over a ten-year collaboration gave her prestige, as well as her photographs of the likes of the Queen, Jacqueline Kennedy and Malcolm X. But the Philadelphia-born photographer was equally interested in those not in the public eye.

Arnold settled in London in the 1960s, working for the Sunday Times. She captured life in the Arab world, before becoming one of the first westerners to document China.

She has been widely exhibited and received numerous prizes,including the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers.