NEW BOOK 'STARTING OVER WITH JOHN AND YOKO: THE PHOTOGRAPHS'

This new work by Roger Farrington and Kenneth Womack immerses us in the intimate “Double Fantasy” period, capturing the essence of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s daily life during the autumn of 1980. Through a unique documentary perspective, the authors reveal moments of creativity and domestic tranquility that marked the couple’s definitive return to the public eye.

An essential visual testimony, it transcends simple photography to become a historical chronicle of their artistic rebirth. “Starting Over with John and Yoko: The Photographs” invites readers to rediscover the vulnerability and hope that defined John Lennon’s final months in New York.

Here is the description provided by Amazon:

On August 7, 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono made their triumphant return to the recording studio after a self-imposed five-year absence. Roger Farrington, an up-and-coming photographer from Boston, was hired to get “the shot” that would announce their comeback. It would be Lennon’s most intense press scrutiny since the heady days of the Beatles’ maiden voyage to America in 1964, and for Farrington, it would be the assignment of a lifetime. Just four months later, Lennon’s assassination would plunge the world into mourning.

Reproducing, for the first time, the entire run of Farrington’s iconic photographs from that day, Starting Over transports readers back to 1980 and into Manhattan’s Hit Factory, where Lennon and Ono recorded their acclaimed LP Double Fantasy.

With supporting photos and other ephemera, Farrington and renowned Beatles historian Kenneth Womack capture a poignant moment in music history and provide an insider’s look at celebrity photography in the pre-digital age.

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