When a person’s image becomes larger than life, to think of her as a living, breathing, feeling human becomes nearly impossible . So it is with Marilyn Monroe , born on June 1, 1926 and now celebrating her centenary. Those of us who love her can’t help attaching all sorts of feelings to her face, her body, her way of speaking, moving, and singing. But to see Marilyn through the eyes of photographer Bruno Bernard—the man who would come to be known as Bernard of Hollywood—is to see her anew. The young woman Bernard met and photographed in the mid-1940s wasn’t yet Marilyn Monroe : She was still Norma Jeane Mortensen , a woman on her way out of one life and speeding toward an as yet uncharted one. Joshua John Miller and Mark A. Fortin’s book The Marilyn Monroe Century: From Norma Jeane to Icon—A Story in Photographs charts Marilyn’s life and career through Bernard’s eyes. Bernard had come to the United States in 1937 to escape Nazi Germany. When he met Marilyn, she was still an aspiring, and struggling, star.…