This was back before Photoshopping. The background figures are not computerized composites but actual life-size cardboard cutouts, with a few wax figures and real flowers thrown in, and of course the Fab Four in person. Some of the background figures are familiar and some aren't. Mae West, Jung, Dylan, ... it's a pretty wide assortment hand-picked by the Beatles.
One of these people was a well known amateur photographer. Your challenge is to name that person. First correct answer receives a free print. Please, no checking record jackets.
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Lewis Carroll? (I'm guessing wildly here, with fingers crossed)
Weegee
Edgar Allen Poe????
No clue, but I think this was forty-three years ago, but it feels like thirty-three to me!!
Nice work, Lucy. Lewis Carroll is correct. Email me your address and I'll get your print out to you.
Here's the complete list: http://math.mercyhurst.edu/~griff/sgtpepper/people.html
Thanks, Suzanne for the correction. My math must've gone through a sixties time warp.
As if on cue ...
'The Shifting Reputation of Lewsi Carroll'
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Lewis-Carrolls-Shifting-Reputation.html
Woohoo!
...and I've just noticed the Lucy Carolan/Lewis Carroll thing. Maybe one day I too will be a famous amateur photog...
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