LONDON: Photographer Robert Whitaker, who shot some of the most famous, and infamous, images of The Beatles, has died at the age of 71.
Whitaker’s friend, photo archivist Dave Brolan, said he died of cancer Sept. 20 in Sussex, southern England.
Whitaker took scores of well-known pictures of The Beatles, including the controversial ”butcher” cover of the 1966 American album ”Yesterday and Today.He was assigned to photograph manager Brian Epstein for the Jewish News; Epstein was so impressed with the resulting image of himself adorned with peacock feathers that he offered Whitaker a job as staff photographer for his company, NEMS.
The job involved photographing ”Merseybeat” acts including Cilla Black and Gerry & The Pacemakers, as well as capturing The Beatles, onstage, backstage, in planes and hotel rooms and all manner of locations, over more than two years. He covered the band’s final world tour in 1966 and took the pictures used on the collage-style cover of the ”Revolver” albumHe is survived by his wife, Sue, and three children. Funeral details were not immediately available.
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