About
The photographer
Astrid Kirchherr (1938–2020) was an immensely talented art and fashion student in post-war Hamburg, poised for a meteoric rise in the 1960s art scene thanks to her sense of style and keen lens. A protégé of the great photographer Reinhart Wolf, she was ready to take the look of her generation in Hamburg, the center of beat and rock & roll in Europe, to the world.
She could have had no idea how her world was about to change when she met John, George, Paul, Pete and especially Stuart Sutcliffe, the band otherwise known as the Beatles. Her photographs of them in Hamburg became some of the defining images of the era.
These are select photographs from her iconic archive, available to license for books, film and television, editorial publication, exhibitions and print.
Every license is prepared as a quote. High-resolution files are released after payment.
