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Editor:	Terence Pepper
Title:	Angus McBean: Portraits
Publisher:	National Portrait Gallery
Country:	UK
Date:	30 Jun 2006
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Photography
ISBN-10:	855145154
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The National Portrait Gallery held the first major retrospective exhibition devoted to Angus McBean (1904-1990) between 5 July and 22 October 2006 before the exhibition moved on to Sheffield, Wales & Bristol.

The Exhibition:

Part of the exhibition featured The Beatles on the Balcony. McBean first photographed the group in 1963 for the cover of their Please Please Me album and six years later, posed on the same balcony at EMI house in Manchester Square, for the proposed Get Back album. These two images, which finally appeared on the Red and Blue albums, are shown in the context of classic, rare and unseen images by famous photographers who helped form the group's public image.

Paul McCartney contributed his recollections of this period to the exhibition catalogue and helped select and lend ten of Linda McCartney's most defining images of the group, ranging from shots taken in the recording studio to others at the launch of the Sgt Pepper album and several rarely exhibited studies in colour.

From the early years, the exhibition displays images by Astrid Kirchherr, the girlfriend of Stuart Sutcliffe, who helped style their haircuts into the famous mop tops, to other early works by Mike McCartney, Paul's brother who documented their early days in Liverpool. Other early works include a collection of Dezo Hoffmann's inimitable shots including those from the Beatles' first recording session at EMI Studios (June 1962). From1963, Michael Ward's previously unseen pictures of the group in Liverpool are shown, as well a rare photograph of one of their last appearances at the Cavern Club. And while it was Hoffmann who took the memorable early 'leaping shots' of the group, new research has revealed that the uncredited photographer of the iconic Twist and Shout EP was in fact Fiona Adams. Her print & contact sheet are exhibited in the exhibition for the first time.

The Catalogue:

172 pages, with 100 images. Dimensions: 28 cms x 23 cms.

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JPGR&B SUBS 31st Jan 2022		Review Annotation: A fully illustrated catalogue accompanied this McBean exhibition. The catalogue included an interview with Paul McCartney about the photographers of the 1960s - which makes it of interest to the researcher and somewhat collectible. It retailed in 2006 for £25, with a Gallery price of £20. Michael Brocken Source: The Beatles Bibliography: A New Guide To The Literature - Michael Brocken and Melissa Davis (The Beatle Works Ltd., 2012), with acknowledgement, and used here with permission from the authors for educational and historical purposes only. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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