Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney 'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us
creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.' In 2020 an extraordinary
trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was
re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and
beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and after the band's first visit to the
USA they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartney's personal
record of this explosive time when he was as he puts it in the 'Eyes of the Storm'. 1964:
Eyes of the Storm presents 275 of McCartney's photographs from the six cities of these intense
legendary months - Liverpool London Paris New York Washington D.C. and Miami - and many
never-before-seen portraits of John George and Ringo. In his Foreword and Introductions to
these city portfolios McCartney remembers 'what else can you call it - pandemonium ' and
conveys his impressions of Britain and America in 1964 - the moment when the culture changed
and the Sixties really began. 1964: Eyes of the Storm includes: - Six city portfolios -
Liverpool London Paris New York Washington D.C. and Miami - and a Coda on the later months
of 1964 - featuring 275 of Paul McCartney's photographs and his candid reflections on them - A
Foreword by Paul McCartney - Beatleland an Introduction by Harvard historian and New Yorker
essayist Jill Lepore - A Preface by Nicholas Cullinan Director of the National Portrait
Gallery London and Another Lens an essay by Senior Curator Rosie Broadley
