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Linda McCartney

The real thing that makes a photographer is more than just a technical skill, more than turning on the radio. It has to do with the force of inner intention. I have always called this a visual signature."

Linda McCartney

Linda’s photograph of Eric Clapton for Rolling Stone magazine’s 11th May 1968 issue made her the first female photographer to have work featured on the magazine’s cover.

Linda Eastman (nee' McCartney) photographed many iconic musicians as the house photographer for the Fillmore East: 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 and Jimi Hendrix.

In 1967, after being named US female photographer of the year, Linda was in London to shoot an assignment on the ‘Swinging Sixties’. Linda met Paul McCartney at the Bag O’Nails Club. Two years later they married.

Linda continued to work prolifically as a photographer throughout her life, documenting, amongst other things, family life, landscapes and the natural world, interiors, social documentary and portraits of artists. Her photographs have been exhibited in over 70 cities in 15 countries. Her work hangs in the National Portrait Galleries of both the UK and the USA and she is the only photographer to have ever been honoured by three separate exhibitions at the Royal Photographic Society, Bath. In 2023, Linda was awarded a posthumous honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Arizona.