Alisdair Macdonald
Alisdair Macdonald (1940-2007) was a British press photographer[1] who worked for 26 years with the Daily Mirror.[2] He took a seven-year break to help launch the first full-colour national newspaper Today.[3]
In 1963 Macdonald travelled with the Beatles to Paris to document their shows at the Olympia. He would regularly photograph the band, up to and beyond their break up in 1970.[4]
In 1989 he won first place in the Humour category of the World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a workman leaving the scene of a burst water main.[5]
After his death, his child Helen Macdonald adopted a goshawk to help them cope and later wrote H is for Hawk about the experience.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alisdair Macdonald: 1940-2007". Archived from the original on 6 December 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ "Obituaries Alisdair Macdonald". Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ "Obituaries - Alisdair Macdonald". Press Gazette. 31 March 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ Davis, Andy (1998). Beatles files. Godalming, Surrey, England: CLB International. ISBN 1-85833-857-3. OCLC 40266585.
- ^ "1989 Alisdair MacDonald HM1 | World Press Photo".
- ^ Stephen Moss, Helen Macdonald: a bird’s eye view of love and loss, The Guardian, 5 November 2014.
- ^ Macdonald, Helen (2014). H is for Hawk. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224097000.
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