LAWRENCE SCHILLER. MARILYN & ME BY TASCHEN

Lawrence Schiller. Marilyn & I by Taschen

LAWRENCE SCHILLER. MARILYN & ME

BY TASCHEN

LAWRENCE SCHILLER. MARILYN & ME

©Taschen

LAWRENCE SCHILLER. MARILYN & I

BY TASCHEN

Just a few months before her death, Marilyn Monroe helped a young photographer get his big break - and this is his story

"You're already famous, now you're going to make me famous," photographer Lawrence Schiller told Marilyn Monroe when they talked about the photos he was going to shoot of her. "Don't be so conceited," Marilyn replied, "photographers are easily replaced." In 1962 Lawrence Schiller had been commissioned by Paris Match magazine to photograph Marilyn Monrie. He already knew Marilyn - they had met on the set of Let's Make Love - but nothing could have prepared him for the day she appeared nude in a swimming pool scene for the feature film Something's Got to Give.

"Marilyn & Me" is the intimate story of a legend before her fall and a young photographer on her way to the top. Schiller's original texts and photographs - more than two-thirds of which have never or rarely been published - take the reader back to that time and to the surprising connection that Marilyn had with Lawrence Schiller. It is a story that has never been told before, told with tact, humour and compassion. The result is a genuine and unexpected portrait that captures the star in the midst of her final struggle.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE AUTHOR

Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist for Life, Time and Paris Match, photographing some of the most famous personalities of the 1960s, from Marilyn Monroe to Barbra Streisand, from Ali and Patterson to Redford and Newman. His book projects include five New York Times bestsellers, Marilyn & Me, Barbra and the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer. He has directed or produced 20 feature films, including the documentaries The American Dreamer and the Oscar-winning The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Of his television films, The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.

"Marilyn & Me" is a Collector's Edition of 1,712 numbered copies (Nos. 251-1,962), all signed by the photographer.

The book and gatefold box are covered in a specially woven Duchesse silk from one of the world's most prestigious silk manufacturers, Taroni, of Como, Italy.

Printed on archival paper

Four fold-out pages, with one flap measuring a full 110 cm (44 in.) in diameter

"In the Flesh" is also available in two art editions of 125 copies each, with an original photograph, from Taschen Verlag

Hardcover in clamshell box, 29 x 39,5 cm, 6,13 kg, 210 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-3624-0

Edition: English

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