“Astrid was the one, really, who influenced our image more than anybody. She made us look good. She was the one who had the leather kecks and the Beatles haircut.” – George Harrison
A protégé of the renowned Hamburg-based photographer Reinhart Wolf, Astrid Kirchherr, befriended The Beatles in 1960 when they were a five piece featuring Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best. She first photographed them in that same year, and her well-known Hamburg funfair portraits of that five piece line-up were the band’s first proper professional photographic session. She became engaged to Stuart Sutcliffe, who left the band and stayed with her in Hamburg. She continued on her path as a photographer after Stuart’s untimely death.
