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The world through Linda McCartney's lens is not just a document of the rock 'n roll world from the sixties on but also a moving personal journal and a lasting testament to her talent.

Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs, from Taschen, is a retrospective volume - selected from Linda McCartney's archive of over 200,000 images - produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. The book has the photographer Annie Leibovitz and Martin Harrison, a historian of art and photography and an exhibition curator, as the contributing authors. Leibovitz is a famous photographer and was the chief photographer at Rolling Stone, Harrison worked with Linda McCartney on Roadworks (1996), Light from Within (2001), and her exhibitions at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford and the International Center of Photography in New York. Alison Castle  editor of titles on photography, film, and design, including Some Like it Hot and The Stanley Kubrick Archives, is the editor responsbile for the project.

This book is a testemony of Linda Eastman work as a photographer, since the early days, when she snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River. Her images, far superior to the the formal shots made by the band's official photographer, changed her life forever. Soon she was 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.

From her early rock 'n' roll portraits, through the final years of The Beatles, via touring with Wings to raising four children with Paul, Linda captured her whole world on film. Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, as well as artists Willem de Kooning and Gilbert and George. Always unassuming and fresh, her work displays a warmth and a feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photographing her children, celebrities, animals, or a fleeting moment of everyday life, she did so without pretension or artifice.

 It's all that that this book shows. In addition to a Collector’s Edition limited to 750 copies, this book is also available in the following editions:

    * Trade Edition

    * Two Art Editions of 125 copies each with a photographic print.