Photography book cover assignment

Photographers.


Iain Macmillan was born on the 20th October 1938 in scotland, where he grew up before moving to London. In 1958 he moved to London to study photography at Regent Street Polytechnic. He first worked a cruise photographer before moving back to london to become a street photographer. In the mid 1960's Macmillan first worked on an exhibition catalogue for "The Sculpture of David Wynne". On november the 9th 1966 Yoko, one of Iain Macmillians former clients, met John Lennon at a art gallery, she later introduced John Lennon to Ian. In 1969 John Lennon asked Macmillian to shoot the very famous and iconic abbey road album image. A couple of days before the shoot, Paul McCartney gave Macmillian a sketch of how he would have liked the shot to be like, Macmillian confirmed he could do this shot, although, the volkswagen in the shot, was not supposed to be there, it just happened to be parked on the side of the road that day.



abbey road, taken by Iain Macmillian, 1969.

 Iain worked for Yoko and John til 1971 doing a variety of different work, such as The cloud on the album cover for Live peace in Toronto, Yoko's book 'flies', the wedding cake in the 'wedding album', The merging heads label of John and Yoko's album "Some Time In New York City" and The cover photo on Yoko's book Grapefruit.    

In the 1970s Iain taught photography part-time at college in Stoke-on-Trent, On 8 May 2006 at the age of 67, Iain died of lung cancer.



Tim Page.

                                     

Tim Page was born on the 25th May 1944 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Tim is an English photographer who first made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based in Brisbane, Australia.

Page has done front covers for many books such as;

• Tim Page's Nam (1983)
• Sri Lanka (1984)
• Ten Years After: Vietnam Today (1987)
• Page after Page: Memoirs of a War-Torn Photographer (1988)
• Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden (1995)
• Mid Term Report (1995)
• Requiem (1997)
• The Mindful Moment (2001)