Paul Saltzman is an international award–winning film
director, writer, and producer of over three hundred dramas and
documentaries. He is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit
organization Moving Beyond Justice. Before meeting and
photographing the Beatles, he produced Leonard Cohen concerts,
attended many folk and rock performances, and danced a lot. He
lives in Toronto, where he plays ice hockey several times a
week.
Pattie Boyd is a British photographer and author who
achieved world fame during the 1960s as one of the greatest rock
and roll muses of all time. Born in England in 1944, she pursued a
successful modeling career before marrying the Beatles band member
George Harrison. Later in life, she became involved with and
married Eric Clapton, inspiring legendary songs such as “Layla” and
“Wonderful Tonight.” As part of the rock and roll elite of the ’60s
and ’70s, Boyd took countless stunning portraits of some of the
most well-known artists of the 20th century. Her photographs of
Harrison, Clapton, and other rock icons have been featured in
various exhibitions throughout the world. Her memoir, Wonderful
Tonight, debuted at the top of the New York Times bestseller list
in 2007.
Donovan Leitch was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His Celtic
roots and his father Donald’s love of poetry and literature have
been a constant influence on his life and his music. He became a
wandering minstrel, writing his own unique lyrics, and soon became
an internationally acclaimed solo performer. His music would
eventually reach a whole generation during the revolutionary
Sixties with songs such as Catch the Wind, Universal Solider,
Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow, Hurdy Gurdy Man, and Season of
the Witch. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters
by the University of Hertfordshire and he continues to influence
the poetry and lyrics of our times.
Tim B. Wride is the founding Director of the No Strings
Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing direct assistance to
photographers. Prior to this, Wride was Curator of Photography at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). During his
twelve-year tenure, he curated over twenty-five permanent
collection focus exhibitions as well as numerous larger
exhibitions, including “Retail Fictions: The Commercial Photography
of Ralph Bartholomew” (1997); “Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography
after the Revolutions” (2001); “Donald Blumberg” (2002); and
“Trajectories: The Photographic Work of Robbert Flick” (2004). He
is the author of the catalogues that accompanied these and other
exhibitions.
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