In 1957, Gordon Parks spent six weeks photographing crime across America for Life magazine. The editors published 12 of his 300 photographs. The rest told a very different story.

In June 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot Marilyn Monroe across two separate sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air for Vogue. Six weeks later, she was dead. The story behind The Last Sitting.

Before Easy Rider made him famous, Dennis Hopper spent six years shooting everyone from Andy Warhol to Martin Luther King Jr. His photographs from 1961 to 1967 are some of the most candid documents of 1960s America ever taken.