My Life In Pictures

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The name Pattie Boyd is synonymous with sixties counter-culture, from fashion to music to spirituality. Eric Clapton hotel room, 1974‘My first time on tour with Eric and I couldn’t resist taking this photo of the sofa and matching figure in the painting. They really only showed very sophisticated models, probably aristocratic models, and it was so completely different. Former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Boyd is famously the inspiration for Harrison’s Something and Clapton’s Layla and Wonderful Tonight.

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.It features extensive photographs from her early modelling career, including Vogue and Vanity Fair, giving a fascinating snapshot into the sea-change that occurred in the modelling industry from the post-war demure black and white approach to the psychedelic, short-skirt, swinging 60s and Pattie’s place in the centre of this shift.

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. 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. The pictorial feast of imagery in My Life in Pictures is accompanied by Boyd’s stories and recollections. 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.Quorum mini dress, 1966Boyd details her extraordinary modelling career and life in London as the city experienced a cultural revolution: ‘I knew there was something in the air . During our meditation lessons in Rishikesh, India, there would be time to capture lovely images like this one of Paul and John.

Today she is a professional photographer; among some of the famous people she has captured on film include Queen's Roger Taylor, Salman Rushdie, Jeff Beck, Kate Moss, and the Rolling Stones' Ron Wood, who also penned the book's foreword. 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. One standout image features Harrison and Boyd posing in front of their home's rose garden, with Harrison looking away (see above).We were totally inspired, whether we [the models] were inspired, whether the designers were inspired—people like Ossie Clark and Mary Quant.

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.

George Harrison, 1968Pattie’s love of photography developed around the time of her marriage to Harrison. Pattie is famously the inspiration for George Harrison’s Something, described by Frank Sinatra as ‘the greatest love song of the past 50 years’.