![]() Eisenhower’s personal photographer for the welcoming Victory Parade in New York on June 19, 1945. Army and served in the office of public relations during World War II. His daughter also said that he photographed Chubby Checker for the singer’s “The Twist” record cover.Ī native of New York City, Barris enlisted in the U.S. While on assignment for Cosmopolitan, Barris photographed Elizabeth Taylor while she filmed Cleopatra (1963) in Rome, and during his career he also shot such stars as Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren and Walt Disney. He said that he never believed that her death was a suicide. ![]() “When I first saw her, I thought she was the most beautiful, fantastic person I’d ever met,” Barris told the Los Angeles Daily News in 2012. Eight of his prints, several of which showed Monroe in a bikini or wrapped in a towel, were sold at auction in May 2015.īarris and Monroe became friends after they met on the set of The Seven-Year Itch (1955). ![]()
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