Expert: Michael Scott - 11/23/2007

Question
heya,

i am a student studying photography at A level. i am researching a photographer and i have chosen to research lain Macmillan as i love the photo of the Beatles abbey road. i am going to try and imitate this in my own work. i need to research information and other photos by lain Macmillan i have looked for other photographs but have not got very far. i was just wondering if you have any information that would be helpful or photographs and names that would help with my research.

thank you for your help
Alicia.

Answer
Hi alicia  , thanks for your question . I knew Iain all my life , visiting him and staying at his apartment in London in the 1980s . You may know that Iain died in May 2006 . He was a very modest man so only by chance I discovered many of the photos he took either in internet articles or by seeing the piles of photos he had lying around the house  .
As far as Beatles photos are concerned they are as follows:-
Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery 1966 for Iain's Book Of London
This meeting lead on to a meeting with John and Yoko and there are some photos taken at Savile Row in September 1968 . He then of course took the 6 Abbey Road shots plus the rear photo of the street sign which he said was a colage of different shots . He stood on a ladder to take the photo .
He also worked with John doing the clouds on the Live Peace in Toronto album  .He also did the wedding cake on the Wedding Album . He then worked on the Erection project in 197o doing the stills . He spent time in NewYork in 1971 doing several photos including a book called Flies for Yoko . Other photos form that time are of the couple wearing military uniform  , street scenes in New York etc . He also did the Happy Xmas sleeve photo and disc label design of merging heads also used on the Sometime in NYC album . The next collaboration would not be until 1993 when he did the Paul Is Live cover , a copy of Abbey Road . This was his last work . He did some work with Kenny Rogers and the Rolling Stones as well . I'm sure you can find most photos on the internet  . Hope that helps , Mike