As Joshua Chuang visited the hit 2023 show “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm” at the National Portrait Gallery in London, he had the seeds of an idea.
He had recently been appointed as a director specializing in photography at the mega Gagosian gallery, and the trove of Beatlemania images from McCartney’s archive made him think it would be an interesting project to pitch at the gallery. Little did Chuang know that McCartney himself had more or less contemporaneously approached Larry Gagosian, the gallery’s owner, with a similar idea. “He said, ‘I’m putting together this museum show, and I would love to know your ideas about maybe releasing a selection of these,’” Chuang recalls. “And that’s how it started.”
