Date: Fri 05-Mar-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: LISA

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McCartney

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Linda McCartney's Sixties

with 3 cuts

GREENWICH, CONN. -- The Bruce Museum will present the highly anticipated

one-woman photography exhibition "Linda McCarney's Sixties: Portrait of An

Era" from March 13 through June 13. On exhibit will be color and

black-and-white images of rock musicians from the 1960s. The Bruce Museum

showing is the initial stop of an exhibition that will travel nationally

through the year 2001.

Linda McCartney's career as an internationally renowned photographer spanned

twenty-five years. Her photographs of '60s rock musicians have appeared in

magazines and newspapers around the world and formed the basis of her book

from which this exhibition is drawn, Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an

Era, published in 1992 by Bulfinch Press.

As a photographer, Linda McCartney, who died of breast cancer in April 1998,

had unique access to a virtual who's who of rock stars. The exhibition

includes 20 black-and-white silvertone prints, 16 platinum prints, and 14

color prints.

The exhibition includes images of such rock legends as the Rolling Stones, The

Who, the Grateful Dead, the Young Rascals, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Frank

Zappa, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and, of course,

the Beatles. Evident in all these photographs is McCartney's preference of

using only available light, shunning the use of flash. Her approach was

instinctive, and her images reveal a remarkable intimacy, serving as

unvarnished documents of a defining decade of this century.

Linda Eastman McCartney was born and raised in Scarsdale, New York. Her father

was Lee Eastman, a prominent entertainment attorney. Linda attended Sarah

Lawrence College and studied art history at the University of Arizona. While

there, she developed an interest in black-and-white films from Italy and

France. Her photography skills were primarily self-taught, and she was

inspired by historically important photographers such as Dorothea Lange and

Walker Evans.

The Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 5

pm,and Sunday, 1 to 5 pm.