My Life In Pictures
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It features extensive photographs from her early modelling career, including Vogue and Vanity Fair, giving a fascinating snapshot into the sea-change that occurred in the modelling industry from the post-war demure black and white approach to the psychedelic, short-skirt, swinging 60s and Pattie’s place in the centre of this shift.
Quorum mini dress, 1966Boyd details her extraordinary modelling career and life in London as the city experienced a cultural revolution: ‘I knew there was something in the air . The pictorial feast of imagery in My Life in Pictures is accompanied by Boyd’s stories and recollections. And then the ‘60s girls, when we came in, we did completely different make-up, we liked black underneath our eyes as well as on top.
Photographers and filmmakers were splashing ahead, artists like David Hockney were doing great things.
Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures is a deluxe visual treasure trove featuring over 300 photographs and artworks, with Boyd sharing full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time. Based in the charming market town of Petworth, Augustus Brandt is a purveyor of antiques, a bespoke range of furniture and unique home accessories. She documented their life together in the middle of Beatlemania and, later, her second marriage to Clapton.Well, it was taking so long that George looks away and I'd like to think he was thinking of music,” she continues. One particular image she took and is in the book was that of a smiling Clapton performing live with the American blues guitarist Freddie King. MY LIFE IN PICTURES features portraits and photographs taken by some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, including David Bailey, Eric Swayne, Terence Donovan, David Hurn and Robert Whitaker. We were totally inspired, whether we [the models] were inspired, whether the designers were inspired—people like Ossie Clark and Mary Quant.
I didn't think that I'd see George again, but he asked me out and that was like, 'Wow, that was good.
It features extensive photographs from her early modelling career, including Vogue and Vanity Fair, giving a fascinating snapshot into the sea-change that occurred in the modelling industry from the post-war demure black and white approach to the psychedelic, short-skirt, swinging 60s. Pattie in studio darkroom by John Swannell, 2018‘I liked the idea of being independent and working, but not all the time.
- Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
- EAN: 764486781913
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