My Life In Pictures

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Pattie in studio darkroom by John Swannell, 2018‘I liked the idea of being independent and working, but not all the time. It includes portraits and photographs of Boyd taken by some of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, such as David Bailey, Eric Swayne, Terence Donovan, Robert Freeman and Robert Whitaker. One particular striking photo taken by Boyd is of a nude woman sitting on some rocks in a beach as a wave arrives. In addition to her involvement in My Life in Pictures, Boyd has stayed busy in the last two years through podcasting, most recently with her show Cocktails With Pattie. Model, photographer, and one of the most iconic muses of the twentieth century, Pattie Boyd was at the epicentre of the London music and pop-culture scene in the 1960s and 1970s.

It features extensive photographs from her early modelling career, including Vogue and Vanity Fair, giving a fascinating snapshot into the sea-change that occurred in the modelling industry from the post-war demure black and white approach to the psychedelic, short-skirt, swinging 60s. Boyd photographing her sister Paula at Friar Park, 1971‘Here I am taking a close-up photo of my little sister Paula sitting on the edge of the pond at Friar Park’ [ • This heading was amended on 3 November 2022; the image features Boyd’s sister Paula, not her sister Jenny as an earlier version said.

She documented their life together, and later her second marriage to Clapton, capturing a vast archive of images not just as part of two of the most famous marriages of all time, but also documenting their close friends and contemporaries, including Twiggy, David Bailey, Mick Jagger, Billy Preston and The Beatles.

She documented their life together in the middle of Beatlemania and, later, her second marriage to Clapton. I thought this is the most exciting thing to happen to me, and this would be great for my grandchildren. With My Life in Pictures, which could be considered a visual companion to her Wonderful Tonight memoir, now out, Boyd says: “I hope people will enjoy the photographs and also enjoy the cultural fact of the change in fashion. We were totally inspired, whether we [the models] were inspired, whether the designers were inspired—people like Ossie Clark and Mary Quant.LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 18: Pattie Boyd attends the launch of her new book "Pattie Boyd: My Life .