Lawrence Schiller

LAWRENCE SCHILLER (New York, 1936).
"Under arrest," ca. 1965.
Photograph.
Stamp on the back.
Measurements: 51 x 40.5 cm.
Photojournalist Lawrence Schiller was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents and grew up outside San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for Life magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Time, Newsweek, Stern and The Saturday Evening Post as a freelance photojournalist. He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then, Schiller has published 17 books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. After producing and directing the 1967 Capitol Records audio documentary album Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?, he collaborated with Albert Goldman on the 1974 bestseller Ladies and Gentleman--Lenny Bruce!!!, and also with Norman Mailer on the 1980 New York Times bestseller and TV movie The Executioner's Song, as well as 1995's Oswald's Tale. His own books, which became national bestsellers and reached the New York Times bestseller list, include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House and Into the Mirror.
Schiller immortalized the life and scandals of Marilyn Monroe with his camera. The artist's work ranges from photography and non-fiction writing to directing Oscar-winning films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1972). Schiller achieved early success as a photojournalist, publishing photographs of movie stars, athletes and politicians in magazines and newspapers around the world. Schiller's most iconic images capture a nude Marilyn Monroe shooting a swimming pool scene for the film Something's Got to Give, just months before her death in 1962. In addition to her memoir Marilyn & Me (2012), Schiller has published eleven books about the course of her career, many with her longtime collaborator, Norman Mailer.