Defying the rampant coronavirus anxiety, Mary McCartney opened Linda McCartney’s “The Polaroid Diaries” at C/O Berlin on Friday evening. “She’d always be looking for everyday moments,” the photographer said about the her late mother’s work, which will be on view until June 6.
Polaroids from Linda McCartney’s exhibit “The Polaroid Diaries” at C/O Berlin.
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Linda McCartney was a distinguished music photographer before she met and married Paul McCartney. Her photos of The Rolling Stones’ “Aftermath” album release in 1966 launched a successful career as a music photographer that led her to shoot stars like Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, and, eventually, The Beatles. But the observer behind the lens became the subject herself upon marrying Paul McCartney. Married life marked a departure from documentary music photography to more experimental approaches, as shown in the current exhibition, curated by Mary, Stella and Paul McCartney with Sarah Brown, curator of the Linda McCartney Archive, and Felix Hoffmann for C/O Berlin.
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