Marilyn & Me is an intimate story of a legend before her fall and a young photographer on his way to the top. Schiller’s original text and extraordinary photographs—over two thirds of which have never or rarely been published—take us back to that time, and to the surprising connection that allowed Marilyn to bond with a kid from Brooklyn, a kid with a lot of ambition but very little experience. Now, 50 years later, TASCHEN is publishing Lawrence Schiller’s story as a signed, numbered monograph limited to 1,962 copies, for the year of Monroe’s untimely death...

In tegenstelling tot de naakte vrouw, is de naakte man niet altijd zo geadoreerd. Dit boek begint met materiaal over de anonieme erotiek van de 19e eeuw, met homo-erotische naaktfoto´s van Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, waarin naakte jongelingen poseren in klassieke houdingen in Taormina op Sicilië....