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BARRIS George

Place of birth : New York.

Practise : photographer.

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He grew up in the East Side of Manhattan.
During the Second World War, he was one of the photographers working for the public relations office of the US Army and notably took pictures of General Eisenhower.
After the war, he worked as a free-lancer photographer, notably in the Hollywood show-business milieu.

He met Marilyn while he was one of the many photographers who worked on the outdoor shots of "The Seven Year Itch" in 1955, and specially during the famous subway scene ().

He was one of the last photographer to take Marilyn in pictures, between June 29 and July 1, 1962, on the Santa Monica beach.

with the Mexican cardigan :

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With the orange bathsuit:

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With a white bathrobe :

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With a green towel :

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1506 Blue Jay Way, North Hollywood Hills (,,,), in Tim Leimert's house .

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With Agnès Flanagan :

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With  Whitey Snyder :

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Alone

Bedroom:

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Salon : 

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Those pictures first should be published in Cosmopolitan magazine.

There is also an amateur video showing Barris and Marilyn on the beach,where she's frolicing, wrapped in a green towel : 

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After Marilyn's death, he settled in Paris where he lived during 20 years.

Bibliography

Some of those pictures were published in 1973 in Norman Mailer's biography, and most of them in the book he wrote with Gloria Steinem in 1986 (« Marilyn Norma Jeane » : New York, Henry Holt and co, 1986).

In 1995, he published « Marilyn : her life in her own words » (New York, Henry Holt and co, 1995), whose text is composed of notes jotted after the picture sessions. Those notes should have provoked an autobiography they had planned to write together.

 

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