On the occasion of Milan Design and Fashion Week, mc2gallery dedicates an exhibition to the sexy and style icon of the 60s, whose memory has spanned entire generations to arrive intact with all its charm still today: Marilyn Monroe. The exhibition presents the shots of Lawrence “Larry” Schiller, then a young photographer: shots taken just before the death of the splendid Diva. Stolen shots in the backstage of one of the most famous film sets or in the moments of intimacy of the Diva, such as her birthday or while relaxing behind the scenes or while, naked, she goes out by the pool: shots that became the symbol of her rivalry with the connects Liz Taylor (highest paid at the time and at the height of popularity for Cleopatra).
Lawrence Schiller immortalized in her shots a Marilyn Diva and woman, strong and fragile, in search of confirmation and consumed by her desire for affirmation, in struggle with herself, perpetually poised between the character, of a beautiful fatal and the person, isolated in a deep solitude in which she slipped through her loves and the ghosts of her fears that devoured her and consumed her until that fateful night of 1963. Leaving, like all the great icons, an aura of mystery about her end and a longing for a splendid Diva which is consumed like a “candle in the wind”, as Elton John sang in the song dedicated to her. The exhibition is accompanied by a precious bound volume published by Taschen in a limited edition.
LAWRENCE SCHILLER – Born in Brooklyn in 1936. He is a photographer, writer and film director (including films and biographies of which Marilyn & Me is the eleventh book). He began his career as a photojournalist for LIFE, Playboy and Paris Match, photographing some of the most iconic figures of the 1960s, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Robert F. Kennedy, from Ali to Foreman, to Redford and Newman. Among his numerous editorial collaborations include among the Pulitzer Prize winner written with NormanMailer “the song of the executioner”, as well as five books that have been included in the list of best-sellers by the New York Times. He has also directed seven films and mini television series, and has won five Emmy awards.
