Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles, London, England, 1964 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)

Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles, London, England, 1964 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)In 1964, I was asked by a friend Dick Lester who was about to direct the first Beatles film A Hard Days Night, to photograph the film, not for press, but more from a sociological point of view, explains David Hurn, when asked how he came to photograph the most famous band in the world, as they played themselves in A Hard Days Night. Over roughly seven weeks in 1964, Hurn witnessed the complete chaos that surrounded the Beatles, then at the apex of

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“The Adventures of Guille and Belinda” is the story or

Situated on the eastern fringe of Europe

With growing religious conservatism and the re-criminalization of gay sex

Working as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards

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Erwitt captures the precise moment when

One of the undisputed masters of 20th century visual art

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