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1936 |
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Born, Brooklyn, New York |
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1949 - 1953 |
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Attends La Jolla High School |
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1953 |
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Wins five High School Graflex Awards, and writes a chapter on lighting for the book Graphic–Graflex Photography
Works with Andy Lopez, photographer for the Acme NewsPix, in New York as his photographic assistant
Begins publishing in Sport magazine and The New York Times
Wins Socialistic Sports Association scholarship to Pepperdine College, Los Angles, California |
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1954 |
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Wins Scholastic Magazine Photographic Awards |
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1955 |
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Published first photos in The Saturday Evening Post |
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1956 |
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Publishes first photograph in Life magazine; photo titled “Head Over Heals in Work” |
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1957 |
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Graduates from Pepperdine College |
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1958 |
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Photographs first playmate, Joan Staley, for Playboy magazine
Publishes first color photographs of dancer Julie Newmar, in Life magazine |
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1960 |
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Photographs Richard Nixon’s unsuccessful campaign for President of the United States for Paris Match magazine |
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1961 |
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Wins National Press Photographers Association and Encyclopedia Awards “Best Storytelling Photo” for photo of Nixon losing to John F. Kennedy |
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1962 |
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Photographs Marilyn Monroe on the set of Something’s Got to Give for Paris Match magazine
Publishes his first Life magazine cover of Marilyn Monroe |
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1963 |
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Photographs the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, for The Saturday Evening Post, where he photographs Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby |
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1964 |
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Wins numerous awards in the Picture of the Year Competition sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association, University of Missouri School of Journalism and World Book Encyclopedia |
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1965 |
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Photographs Muhammad Ali–Floyd Patterson fight in Las Vegas for Sport magazine |
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1966 |
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Publishes a major photographic essay on the indiscriminate use of LSD for Life magazine and brings out his first book on the same subject |
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1968 |
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Photographs Robert Kennedy for his presidential campaign committee; one of Schiller’s photos is used as Kennedy’s last billboard before his assassination
Directs the still montage in the motion picture Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for 20th Century Fox film studios |
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1969 |
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His copyrighted interview of Susan Atkins’s confession about her role in the Charles Manson killings appears in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers |
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1970 |
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Collaborates with author Albert Goldman on a book about the late comedian/satirist Lenny Bruce, titled Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce |
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1971 |
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Directs the film American Dreamer, a documentary feature about director/actor Dennis Hopper, with L. M. Kit Carson
Directs still montages for the motion picture Lady Sings the Blues |
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1972 |
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First collaboration with Norman Mailer, on the book Marilyn, with photographs by twenty-four leading photographers; the book becomes a New York Times best seller |
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1976 |
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Covers the Patty Hearst trial and the historic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier known as “The Thriller in Manila”
Editorial Director for the Academy Award winning documentary The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Directs first motion picture, Hey, I’m Alive
Begins series of interviews with Gary Gilmore, published in Playboy |
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1982 |
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Directs and produces the Emmy award winning television miniseries The Executioner’s Song; its star, Tommy Lee Jones, wins the Best Actor Emmy for the film among other awards |
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1984 |
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Co-directs and executive produces the three-time Emmy award winning television miniseries Peter the Great; the film stars Maximilian Schell and wins the Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries, among other awards |
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1994 |
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The New Yorker magazine publishes Oswald’s Tale, Schiller’s fourth collaboration with Norman Mailer; the book becomes a New York Times best seller |
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1996 |
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Writes the book American Tragedy with James Willwerth; it becomes a New York Times number one best seller, and reveals the inside story of O. J. Simpson’s defense |
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1998 |
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Publishes Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, a New York Times best seller about the Jon Benet Ramsey case |
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1999 - 2002 |
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Directs and produces three major miniseries for CBS Television: Perfect Murder, Perfect Town; American Tragedy, and Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story |
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2005 - 2006 |
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Begins the project of documenting China’s contemporary history as told by its leading artists |
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2007 |
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Publishes the first collection of photos from his ’60s archives, Marilyn 12, with East End Editions KLS, LLC, Los Angeles |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Guy Hepner Photography
Rohrar Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA |
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2008 |
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National Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia (solo) |
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2007 |
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Marilyn Monroe and America in the 1960s The Photographs of Lawrence Schiller, Branch Gallery, Hong Kong (solo) |
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