Original Richard Avedon, Beatles ‘Mount Rushmore’ Banner Poster – 1967
Price: £350
First printing, linen-backed offset lithograph, unframed. Condition: Very Fine. Stern magazine edition.
Size: 14 x 40 inches / 35.5 x 101.5 cm
Photographer Richard Avedon first photographed the Beatles in 1965. Two years later, in August 1967, he returned with the group to the same studio on Gray’s Inn Road, London. It was three months after the release of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the session caught the band at their creative peak.
During the 1967 session, four individual portrait photographs were taken, and another four were used to produce a single black & white montage banner image, known affectionately as the Mount Rushmore.
All five photos were then made into posters (with the portraits being adorned with psychedelic effects) and published simultaneously world-wide. They were made available to fans through: the Daily Express newspaper in the UK; Look magazine in the US; and, Stern magazine in continental Europe.
N.B. We have a framed (not for sale) copy of the banner poster on permanent display within our studio.
The following two links provide further background reading on the Mount Rushmore banner, along with the other four images that formed part of this famous photographic set:
Capturing the essesnce of the Beatles
