 After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for "Life" magazine, "Paris Match", "The Sunday Times", "Time", "Newsweek", "Stern", and "The Saturday Evening Post" as a freelance photojournalist.He published his first book, "LSD", in 1966.Since then Schiller has published 17 books, including W. Eugene Smith's book "Minamata" and Norman Mailer's "".