There are 275 images of the quartet’s intimacy, portraying the beginning of Beatlemania in the band’s excursions through Liverpool, London, Paris up to the legendary first trip to the United States
AP – A series of unpublished photos taken by Paul McCartney When the Beatles achieved global stardom will be shown in London.
THE National Portrait Gallery announces that the exhibition, entitled The eyes of the stormit will be part of the celebrations for the reopening of the gallery in June, after three years of restoration.
Gallery director Nicholas Cullinan said McCartney contacted gallery management in 2020 to say he had rediscovered fotos of late 1963 and early 1964 and that he believed they were lost.
The 275 photos (selected from more than 1,000) cover a short and transformative period in which The Beatles went from being a sensation in their country to becoming a global phenomenon, especially as they rose to fame in the United States and made television appearances history to exhibit The Ed Sullivan Show.
Cullinan said it was an “extraordinary” set of images about “such a famous and important cultural moment. Images taken by someone who really was, as the title of the exhibition says, in the eye of the storm.”
The exposure Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-1964: The Eyes of the Storm will open on June 28 and will run until October 1. A book accompanying the exhibition will be released two weeks earlier in the United States and Great Britain, according to a statement sent by its British and American publishers.
“Anyone who rediscovers an heirloom or family treasure is immediately flooded with memories and emotions, which can trigger associations buried in the mists of time,” he said. McCartney, in a statement sent through its agents.
“That was exactly what I felt when I saw those photographs, all taken during an intense three-month travel period, culminating in February 1964. It was a wonderful feeling to be transported back in time. This is the record I made on our first big trip, a Beatles photo diary to six cities, starting in Liverpool and London, followed by Paris to something that felt big, our first visit as a group to America.”
The gallery will reopen on June 22nd. Other exhibitions planned for the year include a retrospective of the 20th century photographer Yevonde Middleton, an exhibition of drawings by David Hockney and an exhibition of portraits by black artists from the United States and Great Britain.
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