40th Anniversary of the Beatles First 1964 US Tour
Boca Raton, FL: Noted photojournalist Bill Eppridge who photographed the Beatles first US tour, and unpublished photographs from the CBS Photo Archive are combined in a new collectible photography book, The Beatles! Backstage and Behind the Scenes.
The book is being introduced in conjunction with the photography exhibition which magnifies a 1964 timeframeas the Fab Four won new North American audiences and revolutionized rock music at an unprecedented pace and was on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History from January 16, 2004 through January 2, 2005.
"These images depict the Beatles young, exuberant, always upbeat, and followed by throngs of fans who dreamed of becoming part of the group's skyrocketing story," said Eppridge.
The book published by ArtVision Exhibitions, LLC (ISBN 0-9747448-0-8) can be purchased at (561) 883-2145
"Museum goers have been utterly fascinated by this collection of 84 historic photographs ever since they were first assembled for public viewing at the Provincial Museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada" said Vickie A. Rehberg, president of ArtVision Exhibitions. The exhibit, won the 2003 International Computerworld Honors Program Award and the book, which depicts the exhibition photographs spans 112 pages, and is truly a collectors item.
Bill Eppridge is an international award-winning photojournalist of 35 years with National Geographic, LIFE, People, and Sports Illustrated magazines. Eppridge's unique style in documentation and fine art photography brought him history-making assignments as diverse as the wars in Panama and Vietnam, the original Woodstock concert, Robert Kennedy's 1968 campaign, America's Cup and the Beatles' first tour to the United States.
The Beatles! Backstage and Behind the Scenes is organized, circulated and presented by Vickie A. Rehberg, president of ArtVision Exhibitions, LLC, a full-service exhibition and marketing company, providing photographic exhibitions to fine art museums and distinguished venues worldwide.
