Astrid Kirchherr

Paul McCartney - Farirground

1960

Astrid Kirchherr ( 20 May 1938 – 12 May 2020) was a German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann...

The Beatles at Abbey Road Studios, March 30th 1967 during the recording of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, take a lunch break. Later that day they after recording they made their way to Michael Cooper's Flood Street Studios to pose for the famous album cover. This print forms part of Frank Herrmann's 2021 "Icons of the 1960's" publication of the best of his work from the decade that keeps on giving. Herrmann, working for The Sunday Times was given rare access to the Abbey Road recording studios to photograph the Fab Four as they worked on the album Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. He stayed an hour and watched them record, have lunch followed by George pouring tea for the Beatles and their producer George Martin. paper size 44 x 35, Image size 28 x 20 inches. Limited Edition of only 10 in this size This print is embossed with the photographers stamp, numbered and signed by the photographer Frank Herrmann in pencil on lower right margin. Frank Herrmann is widely regarded as one of the outstanding photojournalists of the latter part of the twentieth century, with an illustrious thirty year career at The Sunday Times. Covering stories as diverse as the UDI in Rhodesia in 1966, the Paris riots in ’68, the Yom Kippur War of '73, the U.S Presidential elections of ’75 and the birth of Zimbabwe in 1980, he has travelled to Africa with Bob Geldof to record the famine relief work of Band Aid, has been to the South Pole to photograph the trans-Arctic expedition and has worked with Hunter Davies on several books including The Glory Game and Great Britain – a Celebration as well as his text book book on portraiture titled Portrait photography. His many portrait sittings include,  amongst others, Orson Welles, Maggie Smith, Sean Connery, William Burroughs, Winston Churchill, Duke Ellington, Harold Macmillan, Ronald Reagan, Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Henry Moore, Judi Dench...

Paul McCartney, London, 1964

Paul McCartney (Beatles) Taking A Birthday Picture Of Ringo Starr. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lenn...