Photos By Sammy

Sammy Davis Jr. didn’t have plans for his photography. He never thought, ‘Well, I’ll publish pictures of Frank and Peter and Dean.’ His pleasure in photography was to take pictures of people that he liked, and if he liked the picture, he would send it to you — an 11 by 14. He had no future plans for his photography. It was purely for pleasure. So he never bothered keeping records carefully and keeping the negatives attached to the proof sheets. It was a tremendous job separating them. In a labor of love that came close to matching the affection Davis had for his latest single lens reflex, hundreds of images have been included in a coffee table book collection of Hollywood’s glory days, seen through the lens of Sammy’s myriad collection of Nikons, Canons, and Rollieflex cameras. ‘Photo By Sammy Davis, Jr.’ went into print in 2007, the last book published by Judith Regan
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The Last Photo Shoot

MARILYN MONROE'S LAST PHOTO SHOOT was for Life Magazine in 1962 just two months before she was found dead of a drug overdose.
The shots of the iconic beauty at poolside were taken by photographer Lawrence Schiller on the 20th Century Fox set of "Something's Got to Give" - co-starring Dean Martin and Wally Cox - the famously problem-plagued film from which she was fired and rehired, and that was ultimately abandoned.
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