Sam Shaw

Shaw was an artist starting as a young boy, when he would scrape tar off the street and sculpt animals out of it. As a teen, he switched to paint; as an adult, his preferred medium was film: he joined Colliers magazine as a photojournalist in the 1940s, documenting life in the United States. Later, he became known as a cover photographer for Time and Life magazines. But likely his most famous images is the photograph he took of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate, her skirt billowing up to her waist. Shaw died April 5 in Westwood, N.J., at age 87. From This is True for 4 April 1999 Suggestions for further reading: Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting by Bert Stern Amazon Price: $75.60 Customer Review: These photographs offer the last intense look on the film goddess. It is impossible to come much closer to Monroe's personality. She is vivid and she is sad. In these thousands of photographs she shows all the faces she can show, sometimes she is the...   LIFE Remembering Marilyn (Life (Life Books)) by Editors of Life Magazine Amazon Price: $13.46 Customer Review: I bought this publication because I thought it would have some good photo's of Marilyn's life and it accomplishes that well. Being interested in Miss Monroe's life and not knowing to much about her I finished the magazine-book being even more intere...   Marilyn Monroe Amazon Price: $23.10 Customer Review: Purchased this book to use the images for a school project and fell in love with the content of the book itself, would recommend this book to any Marilyn or Eve Arnold Fan!   An Evening with Marilyn Amazon Price: Customer Review: This book should have been published in a large tome as the photographs are truly unique and beautiful portraying Monroe in the last year of her life. The photos shows MM in bed as the ultimate fantasy. Photographer Douglas does his subject justice a...   Marilyn Monroe: Unseen Archives by Marie Clayton Amazon Price: Customer Review: This book is available through various outlets, including Amazon, mainly as a "discount" book, but in fact don't let its low price fool you; it's an outstanding collection of photographs of Marilyn, including more than a few that I don't remember see...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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