George Barris, who took the last professional photographs of Marilyn Monroe, just weeks before her death in 1962, died on Friday at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 94.
The death was confirmed by his daughter Caroline Barris.
When Mr. Barris shot those last pictures, on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., on July 13, Monroe had reason to be troubled. She had been fired the month before from the film "Something's Got to Give," reportedly because of her chronic lateness and absenteeism.
At 36, she was only a year past her divorce from her third husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. She wanted to write a book, she said, and Mr. Barris would be her collaborator.