The Taschen Store at the Zavel/Sablon has started a fine tradition of photo exhibitions dedicated to Hollywood icons. Their book launches have been accompanied by modest exhibits on Audrey Hepburn and the seventies classic Taxi Driver. The popular art and photography bookshop now devotes an expo to Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words and Photographs by Lawrence Schiller.
In 1962, the young Schiller, then working for Paris Match, was sent to the film set of Something’s Got to Give. The actress and the photographer knew one another from an earlier photo shoot so the atmosphere was relaxed and Schiller was able to immortalise a few daring poses of the peroxide blonde star on the edge of a swimming pool. Something’s Got to Give turned out to be Monroe’s last film because the actress died a few months later and Schiller’s pictures suddenly took on a whole new meaning...
The exhibition of about
twenty photos is supporting the launch of Schiller’s book of the same title that is currently only available in a luxury art edition that costs €1,500.
(© Lawrence Schiller/Courtesy Taschen and Steven Kasher Gallery)
Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words and Photographs
20/5 > 16/6, ma/lu/Mo > za/sa/Sa 11 > 19.00, zo/di/Su 12 > 18.00,
Taschen Gallery, Grote Zavel/Grand Sablon, rue Lebeaustraat 18, Brussel/Bruxelles,
02-513. 80.23, www.taschen.com
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