You're already famous. Now you're going to make me famous," photographer Lawrence Schiller told Marilyn Monroe when they were discussing the photos he was to take of her. "Don't be so conceited," Marilyn teased him, "photographers are easily replaceable." It was 1962, and 25-year-old Schiller was in Hollywood on a Paris Match assignment to photograph Marilyn on the set of her new film "Something's Got to Give ." He already knew Marilyn - the two had met on the set of Let's Make It in Love - but nothing in the world could have prepared him for the day when she posed naked by the swimming pool for the upcoming film shoot . "Marilyn was every photographer's dream subject when she was wearing dresses, and even more stunning without them. Her wet skin shone. Her eyes sparkled. Her smile was provocative ," Schiller recalled the moment that became a career booster for him and brought Marilyn the headlines and magazine covers he had hoped for. Marilyn & Me tells the story of an idol who died barely three months later under still-unexplained circumstances , and a young photographer from Brooklyn who was still at the very beginning of his career. With more than 100 images, including rare outtakes from the shooting of Marilyn's last film, this book is a true and at the same time unexpected portrait of the star in the last months of his life.
