Linda McCartney. Life in Photographs [album].

Linda McCartney. Life in Photographs

Texts by Paul McCartney, Annie Leibovitz, Martin Harrison, Linda McCartney, Mary Mccartney, Stella Mccartney; edited by Alison Castle.

Taschen, 38x27cm, pages288. Album edition, richly illustrated (color photos), on chalk paper. Hardcover in wrapper (minor soiling of wrapper), pages clean.

From the publisher`s description: The world through Linda`s eyes: A retrospective of Linda McCartney`s life and photography In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh, candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band`s official photographer, and she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock 'n' roll photographer. In May 1968, with her portrait of Eric Clapton, she entered the record books as the first female photographer to have her work featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. During her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960s' musical scene, she captured many of rock's most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead. In 1967, Linda went to London to document the "Swinging Sixties," where she met Paul McCartney at the Bag 'O Nails club and subsequently photographed The Beatles during a launch event for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Paul and Linda fell in love, and were married on March 12, 1969. For the next three decades, until her untimely death, she devoted herself to her family, vegetarianism, animal rights, and photography.