Le Pavillon Populaire, a space dedicated to photography in the city of Montpellier, showcase the first retrospective in France of the work of photographer Linda McCartney, until 4th May 2014. A remarkable set of more than 200 prints and original documents will be displayed spanning her prolific career; from her pictures of the most famous musicians of the ‘swinging sixties’, to her personal and experimental photographs. Her photographic autobiography is also a moving account of family life with her husband, Paul McCartney. She worked with the playfulness of Polaroids and elegantly created a spontaneous visual language. Linda McCartney uniquely combined the innovative spirit of American photographers and the intimate ambition that is found in her most personal photographic chronicles.
Linda Louise McCartney was born in New York City in 1941. She graduated from Scarsdale High School, Westchester County, New York in 1960, and went on to study at the University of Arizona, where she majored in Art History. Linda got her first big break as a photographer while working as a receptionist at Town and Country Magazine. She used an unwanted invitation to a Rolling Stones promotional party on the SS Sea Panther on the Hudson River in New York to document the event and photograph the band. Linda became a professional photographer in the mid-sixties. Her pictures during this period chronicled the musical revolution of the decade.
EXHIBITION
Linda McCartney, Retrospective (1965 – 1997)
Du 21 février au 4 mai 2014
Le Pavillon Populaire
Rue Charles Amans
34000 Montpellier
France
http://www.montpellier.fr/506-les-expos-du-pavillon-populaire.htm
