Sunday, June 06, 1999
Rock Hall to exhibit Linda McCartney photos
BY DEVIN KRISTI PARRISH
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The first U.S. museum show of Linda McCartney's photographs since her death last year is coming to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era, will be at the Rock Hall June 19-Aug. 8.
“The timing for this exhibit could not have been more perfect this year with Paul being inducted (into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) as a solo artist and the untimely death of Linda,” says Rock Hall spokesman Tim Moore. “She was well-respected in her own right as a photographer and would've been recognized more had she not chosen to be married to another celebrity.”
The exhibition will include 47 black and white photographs of such rock music legends as the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Doors, her husband, Paul McCartney, B.B. King, Otis Redding, the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.
The complete collection of Ms. McCartney's '60s photographs was first published in Britain in 1992 in the book Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era (Little Brown; $29.95). It features more than 200 images.
Ms. McCartney, who died of breast cancer in April 1998, had a career in photography that spanned the rock music scene of the 1960s and continued through the 1990s.
It was Ms. McCartney's photography that introduced her to the Beatles and led to her marriage to Paul. After Beatles manager Brian Epstein saw a photograph Linda took of Brian Jones, an original member of the Rolling Stones, at a press party, he invited her to shoot the launch of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
The exhibit includes two films. “Behind the Lens,” a 49-minute documentary on Linda McCartney prepared by the British Broadcasting Corp. will be featured, along with “The Grateful Dead — A Photofilm from Paul McCartney,” a nine-minute movie of the Grateful Dead in concert edited by Paul McCartney using film shot by Linda in 1967-68.
General admission: $14.95; children (4-11): $11.50; seniors (55 and over): $11.50. Information: 1-888-764-7625 (ROCK).
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