Linda McCartney 1941-1998
Images
Biography
Linda McCartney established her reputation in the 1960s as a photographer of rock stars.
Following her marriage to Paul McCartney her photographs became more intimate and experimental. As Paul McCartney has written: 'the photographs not only illustrate her incredible talent as an artist, but as someone who was very much connected to the culture of the times, and wasn't afraid to challenge herself or her subject.'In 2008 James Hyman worked with Paul McCartney and Mary McCartney to stage a major retrospective of Linda McCartney's photographs from the 1960s to the 1990s, which received world-wide acclaim.
Works
Exhibitions
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Celebrating 25 Years of James Hyman Gallery
27 Oct - 20 Dec 202427th October 2024 marks twenty five years since the founding of James Hyman Fine Art in 1999. To mark this anniversary we are staging a special online exhibition. Based in St James’s and Mayfair for most of this time, the gallery has specialised in Twentieth Century British Art with a...Read more -
Andre Kertesz - Linda McCartney
1 - 31 May 2019Andre Kertesz was one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium and a photographer greatly admired by Linda McCartney. Famed for his modernist photographs made in Paris in the 1920s and then in New York, Kertesz's works are tightly structured meditations on life in the modern metropolis....Read more -
Linda McCartney Platinum Prints
20 Nov 2018 - 20 May 2019In 2007 we staged the internationally acclaimed exhibition Linda McCartney Photographs, which attracted 40,000 visitors, an unprecedented number in the gallery's 20 year history of exhibitions. Now, for the first time in a decade, a selection of these pictures is available once more for collectors to acquire. Each platinum print...Read more -
Linda McCartney. Photographs
25 Apr - 19 Jun 2008Paul McCartney says: An exhibition presenting the range of Linda's photographic work is long overdue, so I'm obviously pleased that this show is happening. James Hyman, my daughter Mary, and I have worked on it now for three years, and the result is a sensitive selection of works that really...Read more
Publications
