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Nan A. Talese
June 2012
On Sale: May 29, 2012
114 pages
ISBN: 0385536674
EAN: 9780385536677
Kindle: B007DKUD4I
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Non-Fiction Photography
An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's
relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her
death, with extraordinary photographs, some of which have
never been published.
When he pulled his station wagon into the 20th Century-Fox
studios parking lot in Los Angeles in 1960,
twenty-three-year-old Lawrence Schiller kept telling himself
that this was just another assignment, just another pretty
girl. But the assignment and the girl were anything but
ordinary. Schiller was a photographer for Look
magazine and his subject was Marilyn Monroe, America's
sweetheart and sex symbol. In this intimate memoir, Schiller
recalls the friendship that developed between him and Monroe
while he photographed her in Hollywood in 1960 and 1962
on the sets of Let's Make Love and the unfinished
feature Something's Got to Give, the last film she
worked on. Schiller recalls Marilyn as tough and determined, enormously
insecure as an actress but totally self-assured as a
photographer’s model. Monroe knew how to use her looks and
sexuality to generate publicity, and in 1962 she allowed
Schiller to publish the first nude photographs of her in
over ten years, which she then used as a weapon against a
studio that wanted to have her fired—and ultimately
succeeded. The Marilyn Schiller knew and writes about was
adept at hiding deep psychological scars, but she was also
warm and open, candid and disarming, a movie star who wished
to be taken more seriously than she was. Accompanying the text are eighteen of the author’s own
photographs, some never previously published. Many writers
have tried to capture her essence on the page, but as
someone who was in the room, a young man Marilyn could
connect with and trust, Schiller gives us a unique look at
the real woman offscreen. "In this short, splendid memoir, Lawrence Schiller offers us
another cut on the scintillating diamond that is Marilyn
Monroe. In clear honest straightforward prose, Schiller
allows us to dwell in the heart of another time. He
captures Marilyn, both in photographs and words, and in so
doing he gives us intimate access into one of the great
stories of the 20th century: the complicated cocktail of joy
and sadness that goes along with both beauty and fame."
—Colum McCann
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