was the opening of The exhibition “The Polaroid Diaries” of her mother Linda McCartney, in the C/O Berlin for Mary McCartney, the last trip before the Corona-forced break. To the photographer may be on the way, she makes what many do: cook. Via your Instagram channel you published vegetarian recipes, a little Teaser for your book, “Feeding Creativity”, with portrait and Food photography that appears in the autumn.
“This is my contribution to improve the current Situation,” says McCartney in a conversation on Facetime. Actually, you should accompany the dancers of the Royal Ballet up to the Premiere of a new play, “The Dante Projects”. In the morning, with you in their apartments to get up, the work behind the perfection of the idea document, in the evening you fall asleep. But this was also postponed. Now she’s stuck more in London.
Where the “Polaroid Diaries” created
In contrast to her sister Stella McCartney, who knew early on what she wanted, and with your fashion house a long time, from the shadow of her famous father entered, was Mary, she wanted to grab as a young woman aware of the fact that to the camera. Their mother, Linda, was already a successful photographer when she met Paul McCartney as “US Female Photographer of the Year” and first Cover photographer for the magazine “Rolling Stone”.
“it was Only when I with you to your archive worked, I saw that it needs a special look. My mother had to capture the gift, the people in uninhibited moments, and I think I got that from your inherited,“ says Mary McCartney. You told the well-known anecdote about the beginnings of their mother. As a receptionist for the magazine “Town & Country” began Linda McCartney, an invitation to the Rolling Stones for the launch of their new album on a Yacht in the Hudson River. They pretended to be a journalist, came back only with photos and was scanned to the sought-after music photographer, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, and later the Beatles.
But the marriage changed your perspective with one blow. The Viewer suddenly became the subject. Paul and Linda McCartney retreated from the prying eyes of the Public on a Scottish farm, where they lived without a housekeeper, and the children with the Bus to the local school went. The “Polaroid Diaries,” scenes from the ordinary life of an extraordinary family, and now to see Paul McCartney and his daughters curated the exhibition house C/O Berlin emerged. It pictures of Paul with toothpaste foam in the mouth, with his children in his Arm, Mary, the birthday candles auspustet, a young Stella sitting with Kate Moss on a step of a staircase, and imagine not that they are quite ordinary people.
suddenly caught
Mary McCartney can now look back on a successful career. She has the Queen for 63. Jubilee photographed, their images were exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, and in the summer an exhibition at the Château La Coste is scheduled to open in the Provence. She’s also become the Ambassador of their mother, manages the work of Linda McCartney, as their parents and siblings, animal rights activist and vegetarian cook writes books.
