Happy snaps: Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney share their intimate family photo album
“I always used to say to Linda, ‘When are we going to look at these? We’ve got millions of them.’” Paul McCartney is recounting conversations he had with his late wife, who from the late 1960s onwards documented the family’s everyday life on a Polaroid camera. “We kept saying, ‘Oh we’ll just take one day a year when we look through all our photos.’ Linda got a Polaroid camera shortly after we met. In the early days, it was a great fun thing for anyone to have one, just because of the magic of watching it develop. But being a photographer, she did more with it than most people would, she was very intrigued by the whole thing.”
Some 200 images taken by Linda are now the subject of a new book, Linda McCartney: The Polaroid Diaries, which has been curated by Paul along with his daughters, Stella — a fashion designer — and Mary — a photographer. Everything from the family’s summers spent in Scotland, to more rock-and-roll images of Steve McQueen and Ronnie Wood, are included. “The book is very personal, because it shows these incredibly intimate moments with our family that were captured by our mum,” says Stella. “Looking back at all the Polaroids brings those memories back,” adds Paul.
Source: Grace Cook
