I recently saw the fascinating Martin Scorcese documentary Living in the Material World about the life of George Harrison. One of the people interviewed in the film is Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer, who got to know The Beatles in the early 1960s when they were starting off in Hamburg. Watching the documentary on the cinema screen I was greatly struck by her black and white portrait photos of the group. Knowing now that just a few months later the group would receive international fame and their faces would be plastered all over the world, the photos manage to combine a wonderful mixture of poignancy, intensity and innocence. I’ve posted a few above.
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