Sinopse: Just months before her death, Marilyn Monroe gave a young photographer his big break, and this is his storyYoure already famous, now youre going to make me famous, photographer Lawrence Schiller said to Marilyn Monroe as they discussed the photos he was about to shoot of her. Dont be so cocky, Marilyn replied, photographers can be easily replaced. The year was 1962, and Schiller, 25, was on assignment for Paris Match magazine. He already knew Marilyn? they had met on the set of Lets Make Love??but nothing could have prepared him for the day she appeared nude during a swimming pool scene for the motion picture Somethings Got to Give.
Marilyn & Me is an intimate story of a legend before her fall and a young photographer on his way to the top. Schillers original text and extraordinary photographsover two thirds of which have never or rarely been publishedtake us back to that time, and to the surprising connection that allowed Marilyn to bond with a kid from Brooklyn, a kid with a lot of ambition but very little experience. Now, 50 years later, TASCHEN is publishing Lawrence Schillers story as a signed, numbered monograph limited to 1,962 copies, for the year of Monroes untimely death. Schillers is a story that has never been told before, and he tells it with tact, humor, and compassion.? The result is a real and unexpected portrait that captures the star in the midst of her final struggle.
Collectors Edition of 1,712 numbered copies (books numbered No. 2511,962) signed by the photographer. Also available in two Art Editions of 125 copies, each with an original photograph The book and clamshell box are covered in a custom woven duchesse silk from one of the worlds most distinguished silk mills, Taroni, of Como, Italy Printed on archival paper Four foldouts, with one gatefold measuring a full 110 cm (44 in.) across Translation booklet of the text available in German, French and Spanish with purchase upon request
