My Grandfather Escaped Nazi Germany. Then He Found Marilyn Monroe.

A new book reveals never-before-seen photographs of the actress taken by Bruno Bernard throughout her life. In T&C, the photographer’s grandson reveals why he decided to open Bernard of Hollywood’s archives.My grandfather escaped Germany in 1937 on a student visa, fleeing the tyrannical ideology of “failed painter by the name of Adolf,” as he always referred to Hitler. His mother, Sophia Sommerfeld, had given him a small Brownie camera before he left. It was the last time he would ever see her. That camera became his way of seeing the United States, his translator in a new world. When Bruno’s...