It is a shame, kind of, that her photography career was more or less eclipsed by her celebrity status. People forget that she has a respectable portfolio and was the contemporary of many well known photographers.
Anyway....... Linda McCartney -
Photography
After her mother died in 1962, Linda married Melville See. The couple had a daughter, Heather, in December 1962. Her mother had bequeathed Linda money to live on, along with a number of valuable paintings. The couple divorced in 1965 after three years of marriage. She resumed using her maiden name.
Linda McCartney in 1969
Eastman became a receptionist and editorial assistant for Town & Country magazine.[10] During that time, in 1965, she became romantically involved with David Dalton, a professional photographer. She studied the way he worked during photo shoots, learning about how he set up shots and managed lighting and composition. When she began to do more of her own shoots, such as with music groups, he said he was "astonished" at how easily she was able to take control of unruly or uncooperative musicians. She could get her subjects to do exactly what she wanted without much fuss.[19] Dalton said that shooting rock groups was "a bloody pain in the neck. But with the lovely Linda, all this changed ... Now their eyes were pinned on her."[20]
Dalton was also impressed by the intelligence of Eastman's daughter. "Linda and I would get high and Heather would say the most amazing things ... I'd think, 'This is André Breton at six years old!'" He adds that he found Linda's relationship with Heather a "very charming aspect of her life with this wonderful child."[19]
On one occasion, when the magazine received an invitation to photograph the Rolling Stones during a record promotion party on a yacht, Eastman immediately volunteered to represent the publication as its photographer.[20] The photo shoot marked a turning point in her life:
I was the only photographer they allowed on the yacht. I just kept clicking away with the camera, and they enjoyed it and I enjoyed it, and suddenly I found that taking pictures was a great way to live and a great way to work.[10]
Eastman's father, however, was not impressed with her goal of becoming a photographer on her own. He wanted her to undertake some formal training with a professional photographer. "Well, I never had the patience for that," she said. "I had to trust my feelings."[10] She did, however, study the photography of horses at college in Arizona under Hazel Larsen Archer and became at that time an avid nature hobbyist, using a high quality Leica camera.[10] A few months after her Rolling Stones shoot, she was allowed backstage at Shea Stadium, where the Beatles performed.[21]
Eastman had gained some experience in celebrity photography, and she became an unofficial house photographer at Bill Graham's Fillmore East concert hall. Among the artists she photographed there were Todd Rundgren, Aretha Franklin, Grace Slick, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, Simon & Garfunkel, the Who, the Doors, the Animals, John Lennon and Neil Young. Her photo of Young, taken in 1967, was used on the cover of Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968 in 2008.
She photographed Clapton for Rolling Stone magazine and became the first woman to have a photograph featured on the front cover (May 11, 1968). After marrying Paul McCartney, Linda and he were featured on the cover of Rolling Stone on January 31, 1974, making her the only person to have had a photograph she'd taken, and to have been the subject of a photograph, featured on the front cover of the magazine. Her photographs were later exhibited in more than 50 galleries internationally, as well as at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A collection of photographs from that time, Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era, was published in 1988.[22] She also took the photograph for the cover of Paul McCartney's and Michael Jackson's single "The Girl Is Mine".[23]
https://www.lindamccartney.com/sixties/
Anyway....... Linda McCartney -
Photography
After her mother died in 1962, Linda married Melville See. The couple had a daughter, Heather, in December 1962. Her mother had bequeathed Linda money to live on, along with a number of valuable paintings. The couple divorced in 1965 after three years of marriage. She resumed using her maiden name.
Linda McCartney in 1969
Eastman became a receptionist and editorial assistant for Town & Country magazine.[10] During that time, in 1965, she became romantically involved with David Dalton, a professional photographer. She studied the way he worked during photo shoots, learning about how he set up shots and managed lighting and composition. When she began to do more of her own shoots, such as with music groups, he said he was "astonished" at how easily she was able to take control of unruly or uncooperative musicians. She could get her subjects to do exactly what she wanted without much fuss.[19] Dalton said that shooting rock groups was "a bloody pain in the neck. But with the lovely Linda, all this changed ... Now their eyes were pinned on her."[20]
Dalton was also impressed by the intelligence of Eastman's daughter. "Linda and I would get high and Heather would say the most amazing things ... I'd think, 'This is André Breton at six years old!'" He adds that he found Linda's relationship with Heather a "very charming aspect of her life with this wonderful child."[19]
On one occasion, when the magazine received an invitation to photograph the Rolling Stones during a record promotion party on a yacht, Eastman immediately volunteered to represent the publication as its photographer.[20] The photo shoot marked a turning point in her life:
I was the only photographer they allowed on the yacht. I just kept clicking away with the camera, and they enjoyed it and I enjoyed it, and suddenly I found that taking pictures was a great way to live and a great way to work.[10]
Eastman's father, however, was not impressed with her goal of becoming a photographer on her own. He wanted her to undertake some formal training with a professional photographer. "Well, I never had the patience for that," she said. "I had to trust my feelings."[10] She did, however, study the photography of horses at college in Arizona under Hazel Larsen Archer and became at that time an avid nature hobbyist, using a high quality Leica camera.[10] A few months after her Rolling Stones shoot, she was allowed backstage at Shea Stadium, where the Beatles performed.[21]
Eastman had gained some experience in celebrity photography, and she became an unofficial house photographer at Bill Graham's Fillmore East concert hall. Among the artists she photographed there were Todd Rundgren, Aretha Franklin, Grace Slick, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, Simon & Garfunkel, the Who, the Doors, the Animals, John Lennon and Neil Young. Her photo of Young, taken in 1967, was used on the cover of Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968 in 2008.
She photographed Clapton for Rolling Stone magazine and became the first woman to have a photograph featured on the front cover (May 11, 1968). After marrying Paul McCartney, Linda and he were featured on the cover of Rolling Stone on January 31, 1974, making her the only person to have had a photograph she'd taken, and to have been the subject of a photograph, featured on the front cover of the magazine. Her photographs were later exhibited in more than 50 galleries internationally, as well as at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A collection of photographs from that time, Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era, was published in 1988.[22] She also took the photograph for the cover of Paul McCartney's and Michael Jackson's single "The Girl Is Mine".[23]
https://www.lindamccartney.com/sixties/