German Photographer and Artist. She will best be remembered for her photographs of The Beatles during the early 1960s. She was part of a crew of German art students who was intrigued with the band when she heard their music coming from a club in her hometown of Hamburg. She asked to photograph the group, leading to a trip to a local fairground that would produce their first-ever group photo. Kirchherr is also known as the person who first suggested that the band cut their hair into what would become iconic mop tops. She was also engaged to one-time Beatles bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe before his death in 1962. As the group found more and more fame, Kirchherr began to resent being known as “the Beatles’ photographer” and consistently having her other work dismissed, in part because she was a rare woman in the field. She would go on to publish several books of her photographs, and her work has been exhibited in several major cities world-wide, as well as the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
German Photographer and Artist. She will best be remembered for her photographs of The Beatles during the early 1960s. She was part of a crew of German art students who was intrigued with the band when she heard their music coming from a club in her hometown of Hamburg. She asked to photograph the group, leading to a trip to a local fairground that would produce their first-ever group photo. Kirchherr is also known as the person who first suggested that the band cut their hair into what would become iconic mop tops. She was also engaged to one-time Beatles bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe before his death in 1962. As the group found more and more fame, Kirchherr began to resent being known as “the Beatles’ photographer” and consistently having her other work dismissed, in part because she was a rare woman in the field. She would go on to publish several books of her photographs, and her work has been exhibited in several major cities world-wide, as well as the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bio by: Louis du Mort
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