My Life In Pictures

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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 18: Pattie Boyd attends the launch of her new book "Pattie Boyd: My Life .

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. 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. One particular striking photo taken by Boyd is of a nude woman sitting on some rocks in a beach as a wave arrives. One particular image she took and is in the book was that of a smiling Clapton performing live with the American blues guitarist Freddie King. The photos of Boyd posing for advertisements and fashion magazines are time capsules of both the youth and post-modern art movements of the 1960s.

Pattie in studio darkroom by John Swannell, 2018‘I liked the idea of being independent and working, but not all the time.The pictorial feast of imagery in My Life in Pictures is accompanied by Boyd’s stories and recollections.

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. Based in the charming market town of Petworth, Augustus Brandt is a purveyor of antiques, a bespoke range of furniture and unique home accessories.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. And I wanted to take a photograph of them and I thought, 'Might as well have George and me in front of the roses. It was just a really nice environment—even if you do your makeup and your hair and all the clothes that you have to wear. She says: “Previously fashion had been really rather severe and sophisticated as far as magazines like Vogue and Harper's, etc. 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 documenting their close friends and contemporaries, including Twiggy, David Bailey, Mick Jagger, Billy Preston and The Beatles.