“There were times I was a bit reticent in taking out my camera, like when some ‘old friends’ stopped by to hang out. I didn’t want to intrude on these moments, but John insisted. He felt that I captured him in ways that no one else did because of his comfort level with me…For years, only my closest friends got to see these photos–which were literally tucked away in a shoebox in my closet. They were surprised that these images did not convey the John that was portrayed in the press during our time together. In fact, they saw a side of John seldom seen.”–From Instamatic Karma
May Pang met John Lennon when she worked for the Beatles’ management company in the early 1970’s. She got to know him well when she served as Lennon and Yoko Ono’s personal assistant after that. But her life with Lennon began when Ono asked May to ‘keep Lennon company’ during a break in their marriage and their relationship evolved into something no one expected.
In later years, the official word from the Lennon camp has indicated that Pang’s time with Lennon was a ‘lost weekend’, a blip on the screen.
But Pang’s wonderful photos, which appear in this book for the first time, tell a different story. They show a relaxed and playful Lennon-lying in bed with his two kittens at their East 52nd Street apartment, swimming in Long Island Sound, spending Christmas and a trip to Disneyland with son Julian – and a creative and productive Lennon, working on his number one album “Walls and Bridges” and rekindling his friendships with Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.
Pang’s images in Instamatic Karma span colour and black and white, prints and more candid Polaroid’s, and paint a portrait of both a romance and a fascinating time in John Lennon’s life. The captions Pang has written to accompany her photos are rich with detail and will instantly drop fans into situations and stories as interesting as anything in Lennon lore to date.
John Lennon is the most famously photographed Beatle–everyone from Iain MacMillian to Annie Lebowitz took iconic images of him–but there have never been pictures of him like these taken by May Pang, Lennon’s girlfriend from 1973 to 1975. In Instamatic Karma, they’re collected for the first time.
Product details
- Publisher : St. Martin’s Press; First Edition (March 4, 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 031237741X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312377410
- Item Weight : 1.65 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.15 x 0.67 x 9.2 inches
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