LINDA McCARTNEY (1941 - 1998)

Born in Scarsdale, New York, on September 24^th 1941, and educated in the city, Linda McCartney’s passion for photography began in the early sixties.

                  Sunset over Kintyre facing north

Although her formal training extended to just two lessons on photography that she attended at a night school whilst studying as an art history major at the University of Arizona, the pictures by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Edward Weston that she discovered there – along with her later introduction to the photography of Edward Steichen – inspired and influenced Linda’s work.


   Photograph taken by Linda McCartney in 1970 featured in the 2004
                                  'Water' calendar

After turning professional in the mid-Sixties, Linda’s distinct style of capturing the un-posed and the naturally lit resulted in acclaim for her photography and throughout the world.  Her pictures chronicled the musical revolution of the decade at its heart as she photographed many musicians including The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, B.B. King, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys, The Who, Cream, The Kinks, Traffic, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and, ultimately, The Beatles.  Almost thirty years after she first photographed The Beatles, she was the only photographer to record their historic reunion for The Beatles Anthology.


            Arran from Rocks near Smerby, a name derived from Norse for
                                       'butter dairy', East Kintyre