Lawrence Schiller

(Woodland Hills: East End Editions KLS, 2007, an edition of 35 plus 10 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs), a portfolio of 12 oversized photographs, including 8 gelatin silver and 4 chromogenic prints, each signed and editioned 'AP 3/10' in ink in the margin or on the image, 1962, printed in 2007.  Folio, silver gray clamshell box embossed in black and red

The plates are as follows: Color 3 Frame 6 Roll 2 Frame 2 Color 3 Frame 18 Proof Sheet 14 Roll 14 Frame 17 Roll 10 Frame 16 Roll 11 Frame 12 Color 2 Frame 21 Color 2 Frame 29 Roll 7 Frame 33 Roll 2 Frame 23 Roll 9 Frame 28 These oversized prints are in generally excellent condition. In raking light in each of the color prints, there is a soft vertical impression, likely from processing. This is not visible under normal viewing conditions.
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In May 1962, on assignment for the French magazine Paris Match, Lawrence Schiller documented Marilyn Monroe on the set of her last film, Something's Got to Give, co-starring Dean Martin.  Used in more than forty publications, including Life magazine's June 1962 cover, these photographs were some of the last images made of Monroe before she died on 4 August 1962.  Forty-five years later, in conjunction with the publication of the portfolio offered here, Schiller spoke with journalist Lawrence Grobel and described the taking of these sensational photographs:

'I started shooting some pictures with the long lens.  All of a sudden she came up to the edge of the pool and she didn't have the bra on.  What immediately went through my mind was, when are we going to see it all? . . . I shot eleven or thirteen rolls of black and white and four rolls of color. . .It all happened in two hours . . . After the first time out of the pool she didn't have her bra on, only her panties, which she rolled up so they became like a thong.  And then the panties came off.  She was having a lot of fun.'