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Editors:	Colin Fallows, Matthew Clough
Title:	Astrid Kirchherr: A Retrospective
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Country:	UK
Date:	24 Aug 2010
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Photography
ISBN-13:	9781846314773
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128 pages. Book dimensions: ‎20.32 cms x 1.78 cms x 30.48 cms.

Astrid Kirchherr is best known to many as the first professional photographer to photograph the Beatles in Hamburg in 1960 and 1961 and as the fiancée of Stuart Sutcliffe the original bass player in the Beatles. Less well-known are her other photographs and Astrid Kirchherr: A Retrospective seeks to place Kirchherr's photography in a wider context.

The book charts her life as an art student in Hamburg through new interviews with Astrid Kirchherr and interviews with people who know Astrid personally. Klaus Voormann, Astrid's close friend at art college, provides a unique insight into their life in the city in the late 1950s, with fascinating details of the time and place in which they resided. Further detail is provided by Gibson Kemp, Astrid's ex-husband and Ulf Kruger, Astrid's close friend and manager. It was in a studio created in Astrid's mother's attic that Stuart Sutcliffe made his famous Hamburg series abstract expressionist canvases and where historic photographs of the Beatles were made. Astrid Kirchherr's life in Hamburg is recorded through transcribed interviews. Art historical context is added to these contemporary accounts by essays from Michael Bracewell, writer and Turner Prize judge, Matthew Clough, art historian and Director of the Victoria Gallery & Museum, Colin Fallows, artist and Professor of Sound & Visual Arts, and Jon Savage, writer and cultural historian.

This book is a companion volume to Stuart Sutcliffe - A Retrospective (2008). The editors, working closely with Astrid Kirchherr, have unparalleled access to her photographic archives, and the essays are complemented with a wealth of black and white and colour plates of key photographs and numerous additional photographs showing Astrid Kirchherr and her contemporaries, including the Beatles.

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JPGR&B SUBS 22nd Aug 2022		Unseen photographs of the Beatles on display in the VG&M This article was first published on 7 September 2010 (University of Liverpool archive)

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