Chucky Star became the consummate LA party kid who was a sought after guest at parties. When the scene died out, he moved on along with everyone else. Star’s shoes were made by Fred Slatten, West Hollywood’s shoemaker to the stars, whose colorful creations were all the rage in the glitter years

Brigitte Bardot for TIME Magazine in 1965. This photo was taken at the premiere of Louis Malle’s French Film “VIVA MARIA!” at the Bruin Theatre in Westwood.

Photographed at the Saville Theater in London, The Beatles had just received member of the British Empire medals from The Queen at Buckingham Palace.

TIME commissioned this portrait of author Joan Didion photographed at her rented home on Franklin Avenue in the Hollywood Hills after her book “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” was published to critical acclaim.

David Bowie at The Forum in Los Angeles, California, mid 1970’s.

Photographed at Nicholson’s house on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.

Limited edition photograph by Julian Wasser of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston by a pool, 1963.

Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz for TIME Magazine in 1963.

Julian Wasser’s most notorious photo session on assignment for TIME Magazine was of groundbreaking Dada and conceptional artist Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a naked Eve Babitz at the Pasadena Museum of Art (now the Norton Simon Museum) in 1963. The exhibition, organized by Walter Hopps, then director of the museum, was Duchamp’s first landmark retrospective.

This comprehensive survey of Duchamp’s storied career began in 1911 at the legendary Armory show in New York. Duchamp, by this time, was the most influential artist in the world, having revolutionized the modern art world with his unconventional concepts. It was Duchamp who coined the phrase, “It is art because I say it is,” when he signed and dated a shovel he had purchased in a hardware store in 1913.

At the time of the retrospective, Wasser, whose keen insight into his subjects, learned that Duchamp had retired from being an artist to pursue his passion to become a professional chess player. So Wasser decided to set up a shot with Duchamp playing chess. He set up a chess board in front of Duchamp’s infamous artwork “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even” (1915-1923) which was being exhibited at the museum. In keeping with the theme of the “bride stripped bare,” Wasser enlisted 19-year old Eve Babitz, the mischievous daughter of a friend of the family, to pose nude playing chess with Duchamp.

Babitz, a child of the authentic lineage and cultural milieu of Los Angeles of the 1960’s, agreed to the photo shoot, in part, because it was interesting, but also, unbeknownst to others, she was having an affair with curator Walter Hopps and was not invited to the opening.

In the end, this photograph became a memoire of not only an iconic Marcel Duchamp, but also of a young Eve Babitz, who became a symbol of the sexual revolution of 1960’s Los Angeles, who went on to become a fleeting lover of celebrities such as Jim Morrison, Steve Martin and Harrison Ford. Today, Babitz is a celebrated author and often considered the West Coast Joan Didion.

For Julian Wasser, this photograph became THE seminal moment of his career.

Marilyn Monroe photographed at the Golden Globes in the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchased this photograph, which hung in the White House for 8 years. It was also used as a model for a glass sculpture memorial to Dr. King in Kansas City.