Dozens of previously unpublished images of Marilyn Monroe found in the chaotic archive of her favourite photographer are to be unveiled in a book this month.

The book, Marilyn Monroe - The New York Years, contains more than 160 pictures by Sam Shaw, only 40 of which have been seen before. His son Larry found unknown pictures while rifling through his father's archive after Shaw's death in 1999.

Shaw is responsible for one of the best-remembered images of Monroe, from the film The Seven Year Itch, in which she stands over a subway air vent in New York, holding down a white dress fluttering around her legs.

"He always makes me look my best," said Monroe of Shaw, with whom she worked between 1954 and 1957. Shaw introduced her to the playwright Arthur Miller, whom she married.

The book will be published by the Berlin-based Lardon Media and will go on sale on January 30. A selection of pictures will be displayed in the Cafe Einstein on Berlin's Unter den Linden boulevard.

The photos are from a relatively happy period in the star's life. Monroe had married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio in 1954 and her career was blossoming. She committed suicide in 1962.