McCartney Times

Linda McCartney launched a career as a rock photographer after photographing The Rolling Stones in New York during the 1960s.Her daughter Mary, who is now a professional photographer, focuses on portraiture and candid reportage.She was a guest speaker at Photo London, where she was in conversation with Philippe Garner, international head of photographs at Christie’s.Afterwards, Mary – daughter of musician Sir Paul McCartney– responded to a question from Amateur Photographer. She was asked if there were one piece of advice her mother had given her that she has taken forward in her own career as a photographer.Mary, replied: ‘She didn’t give me a lot of advice, but I did have that time where we were both photographers… where I’d take her for lunch and I would grill her about her past career.‘So, she didn’t give me advice as such – she wasn’t like that – but I would say that all the things she photographed she had real passion for, and when she didn’t have a passion for it she wouldn’t involve herself in it.’Mary would say to her mother, who died in 1998, that she couldn’t believe she had taken all those pictures of Jimi Hendrix, and The Doors and Jim Morrison.

Source: Photographer Mary McCartney reveals what she learnt most from her mother Linda – Amateur Photographer