The American photographer took a number of shots of the group in the August 1967 session, four of which were later adorned with psychedelic effects. at the same photographic studio – and the studio was again used by The Beatles for one of the “Mad Day Out” photo locations on 28 July 1968. Avedon, whose career spanned 60 years, died in 2004 at the age of 81 while on assignment in Texas for The New Yorker. Two and a half years later, The Beatles were photographed by Richard Avedon on August 11, 1967. One of the January 1965 Avedon portraits of Ringo. The photograph was first published in the Daily Mail newspaper on, under the headline “Hail, Ringo”. At a photographic studio in a penthouse in Thompson House, 200 Gray’s Inn Road, London, Avedon shot a portrait photo of Ringo, wearing a laurel wreath, looking like a Roman emperor. He was in town researching an assignment for the magazine Harper’s Bazaar. In January 1965, US photographer Richard Avedon met The Beatles at the Ad Lib club in London. The famous “psychedelic” individual Avedon portraits of the fab four.
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