The Beatles – a teenage photographer's shots

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The Beatles – a teenage photographer's shots
The Guardian
March 12 2018

Shots of The Beatles’ first US concerts are expected to sell for £250,000 ($347,000) at auction. Mike Mitchell, 18 at the time, snapped hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of the band’s performances at the Washington Coliseum and the Baltimore Civic Centre in 1964. The negatives, taken only with ambient light as Mitchell had no flash, have sat for decades in his basement

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Ringo Starr, in one of a series of shots of The Beatles’ first US concert tour


Auctioneer Paul Fairweather has described the collection as an ‘incredible archive’


George Harrison. The complete archive is made up of more than 400 negatives from the two concerts – 46 of which were seen for the first time in 2011 when they were digitally restored as high quality prints and sold at a Christie’s auction in New York for an accumulated $362,000 (£224,000)


Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The collection, including the negatives and copyright of the those sold in New York, is to be unveiled and sold at auction in Merseyside later this month.
Photograph: Mike Mitchell/Omega Auctions/PA



The Beatles at a press conference before a concert in Washington
Photograph: Mike Mitchell/Omega Auctions/PA


John Lennon. Apart from the 46 images used in 2011, the remainder have never been seen



Beatles at Washington Coliseum Mike Mitchell