Lawrence Schiller

Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Lawrence Schiller’s work began in junior high school in San Diego, when he received his first camera. 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 photojournalist.

Schiller first shot Marilyn in May 1960 on the set of Let’s Make Love, and then again in 1962 when he was hired to shoot the star on the set of what would become the last film she would ever work on, the unfinished Something’s Got To Give.

Lawrence Schiller has also published 17 books, including W. Eugene Smith's book Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn and directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television.