Everything is caught on film: Paul McCartney photographs his bandmates
Photo: Redferns, Mark and Colleen Hayward. All rights reserved.
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Paul McCartney has announced a new photo book. Eyes of the Storm photographically documents his experiences as a member of the Beatles from late 1963 to early 1964. The photographs show Beatlemania in Great Britain and how the band from Liverpool traveled to the USA for the first time.
During that time, the Beatle captured almost 1,000 images on 35mm film. From this he selected 275 recordings, which have now been printed. The photographs are grouped by the cities the Beatles were visiting during this period – Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, DC and Miami. Also promises the announcement of the illustrated book on McCartney’s websitethat it contains previously unseen portrait photos of John, George and Ringo.
When McCartney looked at the images again, he was “instantly flooded with memories and emotions.” “It was a wonderful feeling to be taken back to that time,” he wrote on his website. The recordings are a photographic diary of the Beatles’ “first great journey”. “Starting in Liverpool and London, followed by Paris (where John and I had hitchhiked a good two years earlier) and then what we considered the big event, our first visit to America as a group,” recalls the 80 year old.
The photo book is scheduled to be published on June 13, 2023 in German and English. An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London accompanies the book. The photographs are on view at the museum from June 28th to October 1st.
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