My Life In Pictures

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To music fans, the mention of Pattie Boyd's name immediately conjures up two rock legends to who she was formerly married: first George Harrison and then later Eric Clapton. With My Life in Pictures, which could be considered a visual companion to her Wonderful Tonight memoir, now out, Boyd says: “I hope people will enjoy the photographs and also enjoy the cultural fact of the change in fashion. It was lovely for me to go on tour with Eric,” she now says, “because I could stand on the side of the stage to photograph not only the audience but Eric and the rest of the band. Pattie Boyd filming a commercial for Dop Pearlized Shampoo by L’Oreal, UK, 1966This rich and evocative visual memoir brings to life the music, fashion and pop culture scene through the eyes of one of the most iconic fashion models and famous muses of the 20th century – who was at the epicentre of 60s London. The last frame from my roll of film was when a wave came in just beside her and it hit the rocks, and it looks as if she was spouting the wave.

Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures is a deluxe visual treasure trove featuring over 300 photographs and artworks, with Boyd sharing full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time. She documented their life together in the middle of Beatlemania and, later, her second marriage to Clapton. I thought this is the most exciting thing to happen to me, and this would be great for my grandchildren.Pattie taken on honeymoon in Barbados with George Harrison, 1966The name Pattie Boyd is synonymous with 60s counter-culture, from fashion to music to spirituality. MY LIFE IN PICTURES features portraits and photographs taken by some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, including David Bailey, Eric Swayne, Terence Donovan, David Hurn and Robert Whitaker. Granting full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time, the model and photographer shares over 300 pictures and artworks in a new book – and talks us through them.

I didn't think that I'd see George again, but he asked me out and that was like, 'Wow, that was good. We were just sitting there watching them photograph the waves, and then the girlfriend said to me, 'Would you like to photograph me?Granting full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time, the model, muse, and photographer shares over 300 pictures and artworks in PATTIE BOYD: MY LIFE IN PICTURES, a deluxe special edition published by Reel Art Press. The pictorial feast of imagery in My Life in Pictures is accompanied by Boyd’s stories and recollections. During our meditation lessons in Rishikesh, India, there would be time to capture lovely images like this one of Paul and John. The photos of Boyd posing for advertisements and fashion magazines are time capsules of both the youth and post-modern art movements of the 1960s.

She documented their life together, and later her second marriage to Clapton, capturing a vast archive of images not just as part of two of the most famous marriages of all time, but also documenting their close friends and contemporaries, including Twiggy, David Bailey, Mick Jagger, Billy Preston and The Beatles.

George Harrison, 1968Pattie’s love of photography developed around the time of her marriage to Harrison. And then the ‘60s girls, when we came in, we did completely different make-up, we liked black underneath our eyes as well as on top. First modelling shoot by Anthony Norris, 1962Boyd’s archive features photographs from her early career, from Vogue to Vanity Fair, and marks fashion’s major shift from black and white postwar demure to wide-eyed, mini-skirted psychedelia, with Boyd’s place at the heart of 60s culture. One standout image features Harrison and Boyd posing in front of their home's rose garden, with Harrison looking away (see above).

Also reprinted for the book are the romantic love notes that Clapton sent to Boyd while she was still married to Harrison (The guitarist’s fixation on Boyd inspired “Layla,” his signature song).It was just a really nice environment—even if you do your makeup and your hair and all the clothes that you have to wear. It includes diary entries, artefacts and artworks, most famously the original Layla album cover painting by Emile Frandsen. I wasn’t pinned down to anything nine to five, I thought that would be an incredibly boring thing to do. Based in the charming market town of Petworth, Augustus Brandt is a purveyor of antiques, a bespoke range of furniture and unique home accessories. An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll.