MONDO GALERIA, in collaboration with the United States Embassy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, presents Marilyn and Me and More: America and the 60s. As the first photography exhibition of Marilyn Monroe by Lawrence Schiller in Spain, the exhibition will include footage of Marilyn naked in the pool during the filming of the movie “Something’s Got to Give.”
From May 7th to July 15th, 2013, MONDO GALERIA presents Marilyn and Me and More: America and the 60s, a tour of the work of famous New York photographer Lawrence Schiller which illustrates the famous actress that was his focus at many points in his career.
Schiller is famous for taking the nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe in the pool during the filming of “Something’s got to give,” in 1960, a film that Marilyn was later dismissed from. Photographer Larry Schiller was one of the last people to see the actress alive. He visited her at her house on the morning of her death in order to approve photographs.
In the photographer’s own words, “Marilyn Monroe knew photography a little more than I did then. All the great photographers had photographed her. She was very professional. She knew what she wanted and how to appear in photographs. I knew how their expressions should be.” says the American photographer.
Schiller first portrayed Marilyn Monroe when he was 23, on the set of “Let’s Make Love” (1960). He returned to photograph her two years later in 1962. This was when he took the pool scene nudes of “Something’s got to give.” No one expected it, but suddenly she removed her bikini. According to Schiller, “Marilyn was every photographer’s dream with clothes on. Even more so without,” he says. He remembers that night, her eyes were bright and her skin glowed. Marilyn wanted to get the audience’s attention because she was jealous of Elizabeth Taylor, with whom the film studio had focused their attention while promoting the movie ‘Cleopatra.’
About Lawrence Schiller
Lawrence Schiller, a 76-year-old New Yorker, began his career as a photojournalist for magazines such as “Life,” “Playboy,” and “Paris Match.” He has captured snapshot of some of the great icons of the 1960s. These include the brother of US President and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, boxer Muhammad Ali, and actors Robert Redford and Paul Newman. He has also directed seven films and TV series.
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