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ARTIST TALK: DAVID MAGNUS. PHOTOGRAPHING THE BEATLES

Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Magnus/REX/Shutterstock (20092h)The Beatles - Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John LennonVarious - 1967

David Magnus, The Beatles posing for a group photograph during the afternoon 25 June 1967

ARTIST TALK

DAVID MAGNUS

PHOTOGRAPHING THE BEATLES

Photographer David Magnus in conversation with WestLicht curator Fabian Knierim

21.06.2023, 7 pm

Please register with: anmeldung@westlicht.com

In 1967, The Beatles are the highlight of the first global TV broadcast: As part of the programme Our World, they perform their song All You Need Is Love, composed especially for the occasion, in the Abbey Road Studios - followed by 400 million viewers worldwide who are watching live via satellite on their television screens.

The historic event was exclusively documented by David Magnus, who was the only photographer granted access to the studio during the broadcast. Magnus (*1944, London) had first photographed the Beatles as early as 1963 when he was just 19 years old at the beginning of their meteoric rise and enjoyed the trust of the band and their manager Brian Epstein. In the four years until 1967, Magnus accompanied the Fab Four for numerous photo assignments and found himself quite unexpectedly at the heart of a youth and cultural revolution: Beatlemania.

On 21 June, David Magnus will come to Vienna for an exclusive talk and give a first-hand account of his experiences with the Fab Four and his work as a photographer in the music business of the Swinging Sixties.

Magnus' unique photographs of the historic All You Need Is Love session are available for sale as limited edition prints in 40 x 50 cm format, signed by the photographer. Purchase them at the Museum or at our online shop.

Magnus published his photographs of the All You Need Is Love sessions in a 1997-book, only a few copies of which are still available, and issued a limited poster edition on this occasion. The talk offers the rare opportunity to have these sought-after collector's items signed by the photographer himself.