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Lawrence Schiller
Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Playing Ping-Pong
1968

Name: Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Playing Ping-Pong
Brand: Lawrence Schiller
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)

$15,000List Price

About the Item

Paul Newman and Robert Redford playing Ping-Pong on break during the filming of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1968. Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Lawerence 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, Lawrence Shiller’s pictures had already appeared in including Life, Newsweek, Time, Paris Match, Stern, and the London Sunday Times. Schiller’s interests and ambitions soon developed into a profession in print journalism, documenting major stories for glossy magazines all over the world. 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. Lawrence 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.

Creator:
Lawrence Schiller (1936, American)
Creation Year:
1968
Dimensions:
Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)
Medium:
Metal
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Beverly Hills, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU24324651581

1850s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver

Felix Teynard
Thebes, Vue Generale, 1851-52

$25,000

H 9.5 in W 12.125 in

Stiletto

By Steve Miller

Located in Hudson, NY

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