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Paul McCartney: Rearview Mirror

Paul McCartney, 1964.

Apr 25 – June 21, 2025
456 N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States

The gifted musician Paul McCartney is also something of a founding father of mirror selfies, though he used an ex-girlfriend’s Pentax instead of a smart phone. This exhibition at Gagosian in Los Angeles features 36 photographs that the 21-year-old McCartney took while on tour in 1963 and 64. The subjects include his bandmates George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon, foreign landscapes from Liverpool to Miami, and himself. “Most of them I don’t remember taking,” McCartney has said, “because it was a whirlwind.” —Carolina de Armas

Photo: © Paul McCartney