Posted January 15, 200817 yr Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 19:41 GMT Sir Paul to exhibit Linda photos BBC Entertainment News http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44357000/jpg/_44357944_mccartneyphoto_pa203b.jpg Linda McCartney captured her husband in a pensive pose in Venice, 1976  Sir Paul McCartney is to stage the first major UK exhibition of photographs by his late wife Linda. The display has taken the former Beatle three years to put together and will mark 10 years since her death. Sir Paul said the exhibition is "long overdue" and will show a "sensitive selection" of works demonstrating her career from the 1960s to 1998. Some private images which have never been seen in public will figure in the display, opening on 24 April in London.  'Incredible talent'  Sir Paul added that his late wife's photographic output had been "prodigious". "The photographs not only illustrate her incredible talent as an artist, but as someone who was very much connected to the culture of the times and wasn't afraid to challenge herself or her subject," said the musician.  http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44357000/jpg/_44357946_paulandlinda1997_pa203b.jpg Linda McCartney's photographic career spanned four decades  Sir Paul worked with his daughter Mary, also a photographer, to put together the collection, which also includes family photographs and landscapes.  Limited editions of the photographs will be offered for sale at the James Hyman Gallery, which will be authenticated with Sir Paul's signature.  Linda McCartney, who married the rock star in 1969, began her career as a music photographer, capturing subjects including Art Garfunkel, Janis Joplin and Mick Jagger. She met Sir Paul in America while taking pictures of the Beatles in 1967.  The singer was at her bedside when she died in 1998 following a battle with breast cancer.  Are you pleased that Linda's photographic work is getting a long overdue appraisal? Â
January 18, 200817 yr This sounds like a good idea, I am sure there will be lots of interesting ones.
January 18, 200817 yr Looking forward to seeing Linda's photos. It'll be good to see Paul from her perspective.
January 22, 200817 yr Linda is long overdue a retrospective. She was a very talented photographer; already successful before she met Paul. I was very fortunate to go to the opening night of her show at The Royal Photographic Society, in Bath, around '92/93. I think that may have been the last big exhibition of hers. I'll have to try and get over to England to see it.
January 22, 200817 yr Author Some of her photos: http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/mccartney/jimihendrix.jpg Jimi Hendrix http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/mccartney/rollingstones.jpg Rolling Stones http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/mccartney/janisjoplin.jpg Janis Joplin http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/mccartney/bobdylan.jpg Bob Dylan http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/mccartney/arethafranklin.jpg Aretha Franklin http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/mccartney/gratefuldead.jpg Grateful Dead http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/mccartney/beatles3.jpg The Beatles with Yoko Â
April 23, 200817 yr Some more of the photos from the exhibition http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...5/nmacca115.xml Â
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