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Two photographers indelibly etched the early image of The Beatles: Robert Freeman, whose trend-setting work graced early album covers including Meet The Beatles and Rubber Soul, and Harry Benson, a seasoned photojournalist for London newspapers whose b&w backstage and onstage pictures of The Beatles touring Paris, New York and Miami became the template for the neo-realism of the film A Hard Day's Night. Published in anticipation of the 40th anniversary of The Beatles' arrival in the U.S. in February 1964, this thoroughly entertaining coffee-table-sized volume offers excellent prints of photos that will be immediately recognized by Beatles fans, who may not have known that they all were the work of one man. All of Benson's most memorable images from 1964 are here: The Fab Four shopping on the Champs Elysees, and pillow-fighting at the Hotel George V; riding in a carriage through Central Park and performing on the Ed Sullivan Show; clowning in a boxing ring with the then-Cassius Clay; and relaxing between-takes on the set of their first movie. The book also includes Freeman's famous pictures from The Beatles' final tour in 1966, including the Chicago press conference where John Lennon had to explain his controversial statement that The Beatles were "more popular that Jesus." Benson supplements the images with pithy comments and insider facts, such as the information that the band had actually wanted to meet the fighter whom Clay later beat, Sonny Liston.
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Benson initially nixed schlepping to Paris to photograph a rock band. He preferred shooting breaking news. But his paper ordered him--and he got his most famous shot, of the Beatles having a pillow fight in their hotel. He got on well with the quartet, especially George Harrison, who subsequently didn't mind Benson showing up on a Barbados beach during his supposedly secret honeymoon with his first wife, Patti Boyd. Pictures from that occasion appear just beyond the center of an album otherwise depicting the Beatles commuting during the shooting of A Hard Day's Night, in Amsterdam in 1964, and on tour in the U.S. in 1964 and 1966. Benson's comments second others' opinions that the Beatles were willing performers and refresh memories of how closely they followed manager Brian Epstein's direction, and his energetic black-and-white pictures, most printed to fill entire 11-by-14-inch pages, of maximally keyed-up fans and four youngsters enjoying and enduring celebrity are historic as well as charming. (The guy sitting next to George on the train isn't Richard Lester, though.) Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Two photographers indelibly etched the early image of The Beatles: Robert Freeman, whose trend-setting work graced early album covers including Meet The Beatles and Rubber Soul, and Harry Benson, a seasoned photojournalist for London newspapers whose b&w backstage and onstage pictures of The Beatles touring Paris, New York and Miami became the template for the neo-realism of the film A Hard Day's Night. Published in anticipation of the 40th anniversary of The Beatles' arrival in the U.S. in February 1964, this thoroughly entertaining coffee-table-sized volume offers excellent prints of photos that will be immediately recognized by Beatles fans, who may not have known that they all were the work of one man. All of Benson's most memorable images from 1964 are here: The Fab Four shopping on the Champs Elysees, and pillow-fighting at the Hotel George V; riding in a carriage through Central Park and performing on the Ed Sullivan Show; clowning in a boxing ring with the then-Cassius Clay; and relaxing between-takes on the set of their first movie. The book also includes Freeman's famous pictures from The Beatles' final tour in 1966, including the Chicago press conference where John Lennon had to explain his controversial statement that The Beatles were "more popular that Jesus." Benson supplements the images with pithy comments and insider facts, such as the information that the band had actually wanted to meet the fighter whom Clay later beat, Sonny Liston.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
Benson initially nixed schlepping to Paris to photograph a rock band. He preferred shooting breaking news. But his paper ordered him--and he got his most famous shot, of the Beatles having a pillow fight in their hotel. He got on well with the quartet, especially George Harrison, who subsequently didn't mind Benson showing up on a Barbados beach during his supposedly secret honeymoon with his first wife, Patti Boyd. Pictures from that occasion appear just beyond the center of an album otherwise depicting the Beatles commuting during the shooting of A Hard Day's Night, in Amsterdam in 1964, and on tour in the U.S. in 1964 and 1966. Benson's comments second others' opinions that the Beatles were willing performers and refresh memories of how closely they followed manager Brian Epstein's direction, and his energetic black-and-white pictures, most printed to fill entire 11-by-14-inch pages, of maximally keyed-up fans and four youngsters enjoying and enduring celebrity are historic as well as charming. (The guy sitting next to George on the train isn't Richard Lester, though.) Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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