Barbra Streisand. Steve Schapiro & Lawrence Schiller

About Lawrence GrobelPatt Morrison

Lawrence Grobel has written 20 books relating to writers the entertainment industry and its stars; and conducted the October 1977 Playboy interview with Barbra Streisand. Patt Morrison is a Los Angeles Times writer and columnist with a share of two Pulitzer prizes. She has six Emmys and ten Golden Mike awards for her public broadcasting work and is the author of a best-selling book on the L.A. River. Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist for Life Time and Paris Match photographing some of the most iconic figures of the 1960s from Marilyn Monroe to Barbra Streisand from Ali and Patterson to Redford and Newman. His book projects include five New York Times best sellers Marilyn & Me Barbra and the Pulitzer Prizewinning book The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer. He has directed or produced 20 motion pictures including the documentaries The American Dreamer and the Oscarwinning The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Among his films for television The Executioners Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys. Steve Schapiros career as a freelance photojournalist started with a story on Arkansas migrant workers that made the cover of the The New York Times Magazine in 1961. Since then his images have appeared in Life Look Time Newsweek Rolling Stone Vanity Fair and many other publications. In the 1970s he began a second career as a successful publicity stills and movie poster photographer working on classic films such as Taxi Driver The Way We Were and The Godfatherwhich can be seen in The Godfather Family Album (TASCHEN 2008). In 2016 he collaborated with Lawrence Schiller on a Barbra Streisand book (TASCHEN) and in 2017 his Civil Rights photographs were combined with the text of James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time (TASCHEN). He died in 2022.