Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. “It was a time in which things happened awfully fast,” Schiller says of the decade. “It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future.” When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of “Something’s Got to Give”, he thought nothing of it. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. She’d appeared in twentynine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess posing for eternity. Just months after the late spring shoot, Monroe was dead and Schiller’s photos of the star were used on the cover and throughout the story that Life Magazine published as a last look at the troubled star. Additionally, photos on exhibit showcase Schiller’s timely photographs of great moments from the 1960s, from movie stars to politicians, providing an all encompassing snapshot of this defining decade in history.
Marilyn Monroe Photographs
Marilyn Monroe (cover-up), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto C-print 48 x 60 inches Edition 5/35
Marilyn Monroe (close-up), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto C-print 20 x 24 inches Edition 57/75
Marilyn Monroe (wrapped in robe), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto C-print 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/75
Marilyn Monroe (putting on robe), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto C-print 24 x 20 inches Edition 57/75
Memories of Marilyn, 1962
Signed and numbered recto C-print 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/75
First Dip, Marilyn Monroe, “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 1/75
Marilyn Monroe (splash), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 57/75
Whitey and Marilyn, “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/75
Marilyn Monroe (sitting on edge of pool), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 48 x 60 inches Edition 5/35
Marilyn Monroe (laughing in pool), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 57/75
Marilyn Monroe (surprised), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/75
End of the Day, Marilyn Monroe, “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 3/75
Marilyn with Director, George Cukor, “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 1/75
Marilyn Monroe (from behind), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 2/75
Poolside, Marilyn Monroe, “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 1/75
Marilyn Monroe (clutching robe), “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 57/75
Marilyn Monroe
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 14 x 11 inches Executed in 1962
Marilyn Monroe
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 14 x 11 inches Executed in 1962
Contact Sheet, Marilyn Monroe, “Something’s Got to Give”, May 23, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 57/75
“Let’s Make Love”, Marilyn Monroe, 1960
Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/75
Marilyn Monroe & Yves Montand, 1960 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/35
Marilyn Monroe and Paula Strasberg, May, 1962
Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/75
Marilyn Monroe and Wally Cox (in car), 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 3/35
Marilyn Monroe (make-up), 1962
Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 1/35
Contact Sheet, Marilyn Monroe, “Let’s Make Love” Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1960
Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand Contact Sheet
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1960
Great Moments of the Sixties
Robert Kennedy, San Diego
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1968
Bobby Kennedy, pg 25 Platinum print 20 x 24 inches Edition 1/15 Executed in 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. C-print 16 x 20 inches Edition 1/35 Executed in 1963
Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, Conceding the Presidential Election to John F. Kennedy, Los Angeles, November 1960
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches
Clint Eastwood
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1969
Clint Eastwood, Yugoslavia
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed c. 1969
Joe DiMaggio, the day before Marilyn’s funeral, August 7, 1962 Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 24 x 20 inches Edition 3/35
Joe DiMaggio and Joe DiMaggio, Jr. at Marilyn’s funeral, August 8, 1962
Signed and numbered recto Silver Gelatin Photograph 20 x 24 inches Edition 1/75
Barbra Streisand (fur hat)
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1969
Barbra Streisand (photo session)
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1969
Barbra Streisand (in her hotel room) Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1969
Barbra Streisand, pg 23
Silver Gelatin Print 16 x 20 inches Edition 3/35 Executed in 1968
Buster Keaton, pg. 11 Silver Gelatin Print 16 x 20 inches Edition 7/35 Executed in 1965
Paul Newman in the motion picture “Cool Hand Luke�
Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 14 x 11 inches
Paul Newman and Robert Redford, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid� Signed verso Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 inches Executed in 1968
Butch Cassidy, pg 47
Platinum Print 24 x 20 inches Edition 1/15 Executed in 1968
Butch Cassidy
Platinum Print 20 x 24 inches Edition of 15 Executed in 1968
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