My Life In Pictures

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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. They really only showed very sophisticated models, probably aristocratic models, and it was so completely different. So you think about not just photography but fashion and music, and artists like David Hockney and all of these people came together at one time. It includes portraits and photographs of Boyd taken by some of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, such as David Bailey, Eric Swayne, Terence Donovan, Robert Freeman and Robert Whitaker.

I thought this is the most exciting thing to happen to me, and this would be great for my grandchildren. 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. 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. The pictorial feast of imagery in My Life in Pictures is accompanied by Boyd’s stories and recollections. Granting full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time, the model, muse, and photographer shares over 300 pictures and artworks in PATTIE BOYD: MY LIFE IN PICTURES, a deluxe special edition published by Reel Art Press.It's not something that I can hang on to because it's too heavy a load to have in my mind all the time. She says: “Previously fashion had been really rather severe and sophisticated as far as magazines like Vogue and Harper's, etc. Former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Boyd is famously the inspiration for Harrison’s Something and Clapton’s Layla and Wonderful Tonight. And I wanted to take a photograph of them and I thought, 'Might as well have George and me in front of the roses.

The name Pattie Boyd is synonymous with sixties counter-culture, from fashion to music to spirituality. Well, it was taking so long that George looks away and I'd like to think he was thinking of music,” she continues. George Harrison, 1968Pattie’s love of photography developed around the time of her marriage to Harrison. I wasn’t pinned down to anything nine to five, I thought that would be an incredibly boring thing to do.Eric Clapton hotel room, 1974‘My first time on tour with Eric and I couldn’t resist taking this photo of the sofa and matching figure in the painting.

Aside from fellow model Twiggy, Boyd was a symbolic face of the countercultural movement in Britain, especially during the era of Swinging London. The pictorial feast of imagery in My Life in Pictures is further brought alive by Boyd’s accompanying stories and recollections. It was just a really nice environment—even if you do your makeup and your hair and all the clothes that you have to wear.Pattie in studio darkroom by John Swannell, 2018‘I liked the idea of being independent and working, but not all the time. Today she is a professional photographer; among some of the famous people she has captured on film include Queen's Roger Taylor, Salman Rushdie, Jeff Beck, Kate Moss, and the Rolling Stones' Ron Wood, who also penned the book's foreword. The photos of Boyd posing for advertisements and fashion magazines are time capsules of both the youth and post-modern art movements of the 1960s.

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. More than 50 years later, Boyd, who is now married to Rod Weston, has switched places from being photographed to getting behind the camera herself. The archive features extensive photographs from her early career, from Vogue to Vanity Fair, and marks fashion’s major shift from black and white post-war demure to wide-eyed, mini-skirted psychedelia, with Boyd’s place at the heart of sixties culture: “It was like a zeitgeist, we were no longer twin sets and pearls; we were forging ahead, going through the tunnel knowing there’s something at the other end. 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 .We were totally inspired, whether we [the models] were inspired, whether the designers were inspired—people like Ossie Clark and Mary Quant. Pattie taken on honeymoon in Barbados with George Harrison, 1966The name Pattie Boyd is synonymous with 60s counter-culture, from fashion to music to spirituality. 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.