An exhibition not to be missed. It exhibited for the first time in Spain some nude pictures of the actress on the set of 'Something's got to give', her last, unfinished film. From May 7 to July 15, 2013, Mondo Gallery presents "Marilyn and Me and More: America and 60", a journey with twenty images of the work of famed New York photographer Lawrence Schiller on the famous actress, which portrayed at different times of her career.

Mondo Gallery in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States, and the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain presents Marilyn and Me and More: America and the 60'una exhibition of 30 photographs by Schiller in the 60s' , an era full of social upheaval, political and cultural. In this exhibition you can see snapshots of Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Donnald Sutherland, Marilyn Monroe and Barbara Streisand among other icons of the decade.

Famous for the shots the pool with Marilyn Monroe naked during the filming of the movie "Something's got to give" in 1960, the film the actress was last. Photographer Larry Schiller was one of the last people to see this actress alive.  He visited her at her home the morning of his death, to approve some photographs.

In the words of the photographer, "on photograph Marilyn Monroe knew a bit more , then. She had been photographed by all the great photographers. She was very professional. She knew what she wanted and how to appear in the photographs. She knew how expressions should be," said the American photographer.

Schiller first portrayed Marilyn Monroe when he was 23 years old on the set of "Let's Make Love" (1960). He returned to photograph two years later in 1962. It was when he took the famous nude swimming scene on the set of "Something's got to give". Nobody expected it. But suddenly took off the bikini she wore. According to Schiller, "Marilyn was a photographer's dream with her clothes on. Even without it," he says. Remember that night that her eyes sparkled. Her skin glowed. Marilyn wanted to draw public attention because she was jealous then of Elizabeth Taylor, the film studio that was overturned for the promotion of the movie "Cleopatra".

Exhibition of Lawrence Schiller, curated by Diego Alonso and exhibit by MONDO Gallery in collaboration with the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain and the Embassy of the United States can be seen in

Venue- Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. 1st floor. Calle Zurbano 3, 28010, Madrid.

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

Though a childhood accident left him with impaired vision in one eye, he became an obsessive photographer; even while attending Pepperdine College, his pictures had already appeared in Life, Sport, Playboy, Glamour, and the Saturday Evening Post. Schiller’s interests and ambitions soon developed into a profession in print journalism, documenting major stories for glossy magazines all over the world, including Life, Look, Newsweek, Time, Paris Match, Stern, and the London Sunday Times. His iconic images of Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, and Madame Nhu, among others are tributes to his doggedness, ingenuity, and charm as well as to his technical proficiency.

In November 1963, while on assignment for the Saturday Evening Post, he reached Dallas in time to photograph Lee Harvey Oswald. Later, he landed Jack Ruby’s final interview. After extensive interviews with the widow of Lenny Bruce, Schiller and the writer Albert Goldman published Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce (1974); and, with the photographer W. Eugene Smith, he produced Minamata (1975), the epic pictorial chronicle of mercury poisoning in Japan.

Schiller moved into motion pictures by directing a portion of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and Lady Sings the Blues (1972), with Diana Ross. He also directed the Oscar-winning documentary The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1972); The American Dreamer (1971), a film on Dennis Hopper; and, after obtaining extraordinary cooperation from the Kremlin, executive produced and co-directed Peter the Great (1986), the Emmy Award-winning television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, and Laurence Olivier.

Perhaps nothing in Schiller’s career proved more remarkable, though, than his collaboration with Norman Mailer — a friendship unique in American literary history. For nearly thirty-five years the two worked closely together, on books including Marilyn (1973), The Faith of Graffiti (1974), Oswald’s Tale (1995), Into the Mirror (2002), and The Executioner’s Song (1979), for which Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize. Schiller, who did much of the legwork, interviews, and research for Executioner’s Song, outmaneuvered numerous other reporters to gain exclusive access to the book’s subject, Gary Gilmore, and went on to produce and direct the award-winning television miniseries based upon it, starring Tommy Lee Jones.

Similarly, Schiller managed to embed himself into the so-called “Dream Team” defending O. J. Simpson, and with his unique insider’s perspective on the case, co-wrote (with James Willwerth) the New York Times best-selling American Tragedy (1996).

Following the death of Norman Mailer in 2007, Schiller was named senior advisor to the Mailer estate, and is president and co-founder of the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He has been a consultant to NBC News and the Annie Liebovitz Studios and has written for The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, and other publications.

He has five children and five grandchildren; and lives in New York and Los Angeles. Marilyn & Me is his eleventh book.

Photography by Lawrence Schiller, in 2011. / ©Lawrence Schiller / Courtesy of MONDO GALERIA.

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Published on: May 7, 2013
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