![]() ![]() The pair got along famously and at this time agreed to someday produce a picture book and autobiography together. Like the many other photographers, he captured Marilyn with her skirt blowing above the famous subway grate. ![]() He first encountered Marilyn as being one of the many photographers present during location shooting of the infamous Seven Year Itch skirt scene in 1955. He did not allow these to be published until many years after her death. He is perhaps best known for his work with Marilyn Monroe, with whom he was collaborating on a book at the time of her death.As part of this project, he took some of the last photographs of Monroe while she was alive. He photographed many stars of the 1950’s & 60’s, including Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra. After the war, he became a freelance photographer and readily found work in Hollywood. Many of his photographs of General Eisenhower were published. ![]() His interest in photography was lifelong, and as a young man he worked for the US Army’s Office of Public Relations where he photographed General Eisenhower. George Barris grew up in New York City before World War II. ![]()
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