SCHILLER, LAWRENCE

Robert Kennedy, San Diego

1968

A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Paul Newman in the motion picture "Cool Hand Luke” is a figurative, silver gelatin photograph in black and white by ...

A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Barbra Streisand (photo session)” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Sch...

A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. ""Marilyn Monroe"" is a nude, figurative vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American Post-War artist Lawrence Schiller. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. ""It was a time in which things happened awfully fast,"" Schiller says of the decade. ""It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future."" When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...

A silver gelatin photograph of Barbra Streisand on the set of "On A Clear Day” in 1969 by American artist, Lawrence Schiller. This print is edition 1/35 and is signed in the lower ri...

This Robert Kennedy during his election campaign is a b/w photograph by Henry Grossman taken very likely in 1968. Print on polished paper with stamp of...

Robert F. Kennedy, Ambassador Hotel, 1968, LIFE Magazine Photo of Bobby Kennedy giving his final victory speech in the California Democratic presiden...

Portrait of Robert Kennedy by Grossman is a photographic print by Henry Grossman taken very likely in 1968 before Kennedy's homicide. Print on baryta paper with stamp of the photographer and clichè applied on the back. Excellent conditions. Dim: cm 20 x 25 In this photo, Robert Francis Kennedy (also named Bob or Bobby, 1925-1968), son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy...

Henry Grossman, Bobby Kennedy (Robert Francis Kennedy (1925–1968)), Election campaign, 1968, Vintage