My Life In Pictures

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It features extensive photographs from her early modelling career, including Vogue and Vanity Fair, giving a fascinating snapshot into the sea-change that occurred in the modelling industry from the post-war demure black and white approach to the psychedelic, short-skirt, swinging 60s and Pattie’s place in the centre of this shift.

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 18: Pattie Boyd attends the launch of her new book "Pattie Boyd: My Life .A good portion of My Life in Pictures focuses on her modeling work that she did prior to and during her relationship with Harrison, whom she married in 1966. With My Life in Pictures, which could be considered a visual companion to her Wonderful Tonight memoir, now out, Boyd says: “I hope people will enjoy the photographs and also enjoy the cultural fact of the change in fashion. Pattie taken on honeymoon in Barbados with George Harrison, 1966The name Pattie Boyd is synonymous with 60s counter-culture, from fashion to music to spirituality.

Former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Boyd is famously the inspiration for Harrison’s Something and Clapton’s Layla and Wonderful Tonight. It includes diary entries, artefacts and artworks, most famously the original Layla album cover painting by Emile Frandsen. Model, photographer, and one of the most iconic muses of the twentieth century, Pattie Boyd was at the epicentre of the London music and pop-culture scene in the 1960s and 1970s. It includes portraits and photographs of Boyd taken by some of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, such as David Bailey, Eric Swayne, Terence Donovan, Robert Freeman and Robert Whitaker. I thought this is the most exciting thing to happen to me, and this would be great for my grandchildren.I always wanted to put out a book of photographs,” she explains, “because I think in a way they speak louder than words. To music fans, the mention of Pattie Boyd's name immediately conjures up two rock legends to who she was formerly married: first George Harrison and then later Eric Clapton. Aside from fellow model Twiggy, Boyd was a symbolic face of the countercultural movement in Britain, especially during the era of Swinging London. It's not something that I can hang on to because it's too heavy a load to have in my mind all the time.

She documented their life together, and later her second marriage to Clapton, capturing a vast archive of images not just as part of two of the most famous marriages of all time, but also of their close friends and contemporaries, including Twiggy, David Bailey, Mick Jagger, Billy Preston and The Beatles. In addition to the photos, My Life in Pictures features facsimiles of Boyd's personal memorabilia such as newspaper clippings as well as an entry from her calendar book from March 6, 1964, in which she adorably wrote that Harrison asked her out on a date (The two had first met on the set of the Beatles film A Hard's Day's Night). In addition to her involvement in My Life in Pictures, Boyd has stayed busy in the last two years through podcasting, most recently with her show Cocktails With Pattie. We were totally inspired, whether we [the models] were inspired, whether the designers were inspired—people like Ossie Clark and Mary Quant.So you think about not just photography but fashion and music, and artists like David Hockney and all of these people came together at one time.