Paul McCartney donates late wife Linda’s photos to museum

 Linda and Paul McCartney with their children James, Mary and Stella in September 1974. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty Images




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Paul McCartney donates late wife Linda’s photos to museum
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May 3, 2018



Linda and Paul McCartney in 1993

LONDON — The Victoria & Albert Museum says Paul McCartney has donated 63 photographs taken by his late wife Linda to the museum’s new photography center.

The collection includes Linda McCartney’s portraits of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix as a well as images from nature and photos of her family.

Linda McCartney worked as a professional photographer from the mid-1960s and was married to the former Beatle from 1969 until her death from breast cancer in 1998.

The V&A’s senior curator of photographs, Martin Barnes, said Thursday that Linda McCartney was “interested in unguarded moments and intimate moments, unstaged moments,” whether taking pictures of her family or of celebrities.

The photos will go on display at the V&A’s national photography center, which opens Oct. 12.






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Sir Paul donates Linda McCartney photographs to V&A
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May 03 2018


Linda McCartney died from breast cancer in 1998

Sir Paul McCartney has donated 63 photographs by his late wife Linda McCartney to the V&A in London.

The collection includes portraits of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, as well as McCartney family snaps.

Some of her original Polaroids will be shown to the public for the first time.

The images by the former US female photographer of the year will go on display in the V&A's new Photography Centre when it opens on 12 October.


Some of the photos are intimate family portraits

Martin Barnes, senior curator of photographs at the V&A, said: "Linda McCartney was a talented eye-witness of pop culture and explored many creative approaches to artistic photography. Her camera also captured tender moments with her family.

"Our greatest thanks go to Sir Paul McCartney and his family for this incredibly generous gift."

Linda McCartney was voted US female photographer of the year in 1967, the same year she met Paul in a London nightclub.


The collection includes this shot of the Beatles in 1967 at Brian Epstein's house

The following year, she became the first female photographer to have her work featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine with her portrait of Eric Clapton.

She was the first person to not only have photographed Rolling Stone's cover, but to have appeared on the magazine's front cover herself, with her husband, in 1974.

The couple married in 1969 and had four children - Stella, Heather, Mary and James - before her death from breast cancer in 1998.



 Linda McCartney in 1969. Photograph: Linda McCartney/PA