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There are places Paul McCartney remembers as The Beatles<\/a> moved from Liverpool sensations to global superstars \u2014 aka Beatlemania\u00a0\u2014 and some of them are captured in a new McCartney photo exhibit at Toronto\u2019s Art Gallery of Ontario<\/a>, its only Canadian stop.<\/p>\n

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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm is made up of 250 pictures taken by the Beatles\u2019 singer-bassist-songwriter over three months between December1963 and February 1964 as the Fab Four travelled from Liverpool to London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s all spread out over 10,000 square-feet on the AGO\u2019s fifth floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very much a show about memory,\u201d Flavia Frigeri, Curatorial and Collections Director at the National Portrait Gallery, London, said during a media preview on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s also very much about collective memory. It\u2019s almost like a time capsule. And during this time, it was really the whirlwind of Beatlemania and it all started with a Pentax camera that Paul McCartney took along with him on this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frigeri said it wasn\u2019t until 2020 that the photos, part of a 1,000-picture collection, were unearthed from the McCartney Productions archive and the exhibit debuted first in London in 2023 and has since travelled the world, now landing in Toronto.<\/p>\n

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The Beatles \u2014 McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr <\/a>\u2014 are all captured in all their fresh-faced and fun glory, along with manager Brian Epstein, McCartney\u2019s girlfriend Jane Asher, producer George Martin, along with accompanying press photographers, and even scenery and landscapes of the places they visited.<\/p>\n

\"Ringo Ringo Starr, London, January, 1964 (Paul McCartney, courtesy of the AGO) Photo by Paul McCartney, courtesy of AGO<\/p>\n

\u201cThe photographs demonstrate for me that Paul, the multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and even actor, A Hard Day\u2019s Night and Help!, and so forth, was also a highly skilled photographer,\u201d said Jim Shedden, AGO Curator, Special Projects and Director, Publishing, during the media preview.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s careful to say that he doesn\u2019t claim to be a master photographer, just someone who was in the right place at the right time in an understatement. It\u2019s incredible what happens in that 10-week run. They became an international phenomenon and the exhibition traces the rise of their fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"West West 58th Street, crossing 6th avenue, New York, Feb. 1964 (Paul McCartney, courtesy of AGO) Photo by Paul McCartney courtesy of AGO<\/p>\n

McCartney first was introduced to photography through his younger brother Mike and would go on to marry\u00a0 photographer Linda Eastman. His daughter Mary is also a photographer.<\/p>\n

Among the exhibit\u2019s photo highlights in black and white and colour are backstage shots at concerts and TV studios, at home with the McCartneys and the Ashers, posing for a sculptor, road trip photos on planes and trains, fishing, waterskiing, swimming and visiting at a friends home in Miami, plus things like diary entries, accountant slips, and videos of them at a news conference in America and on the Ed Sullivan Show.<\/p>\n

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\"The The Beatles with Clay portrait busts by David Wynne, 1964 (Courtesy of the AGO) Photo by AGO<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a cultural rupture,\u201d said Shedden of Beatlemania in an interview with the Sun.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they also evolved. If you listen album after album, each album moves forward and it\u2019s like seven years, like from the time Ringo starts to the time they break up. It\u2019s a kind of restless creativity and there\u2019s a bit of magic somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AGO version of the exhibit also has a section called Beatlemania! in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm is open to AGO Members\u2019 until Feb 26, then passholders until March 22, and then the public from March 24 until June 7.<\/p>\n

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