Iain Macmillan

Iain was born on Oct. 20 1938 in Dundee, Scotland. He attended the High School of Dundee and graduated in 1954. He worked as an assistant manager at a jute mill for some time to pay for it. He moved to London in 1958 and studied Photography at the Regent Street Polytechnic. His first job with photography was on a cruise ship. He returned to Scotland a year later to shoot street sceens. The Sunday Times and the Illustrated London News commissioned him in the early 1960s after seeing his work. In the mid 1960's he worked on a catalogue for "The Sculpture of David Wynne". He also photographed "The Book of London" (1966). One of the people who were photographed in the book, Yoko Ono, introduced Iain to the Beetles. John invited Iain to photograph the cover for the Abbey Road album. He took six pictures of the Beetles crossing the street. A policeman was hired to stop traffic, and they did this at around 11:00 to keep fans away. He also shot the back cover for the album, and got angry at the girl who walked through the picture. This is the defining moment for Iain. He worked with John until 1971, doing work like:
The cloud on the album cover for Live Peace in Toronto.
Photos on the album Some Time in New York City.
The wedding cake in the Wedding Album.
Yoko's book Flies.
The cover photo on Yoko's book Grapefruit.
The merging heads of John and Yoko on the vinyl single Happy Xmas (War is Over).
Kenny Rogers And The First Edition - cover photograph of Somethings Burning
After this, he went and taught part time at Stoke-on-Trent college. After he quit, he photographed the cover of Paul is Live on the same Abbey Street, but with a sheepdog. He died in 2006 of lung cancer.

The all famous Abbey Road album cover, the only one with Paul smoking out of the six. I think it is well done, but it needs a new angle. By looking at a few different versions of the picture, and looking at the angle of the shadows, this looks like more like somebody cut out the band and glued them to another, brighter display of Abbey Street.

This picture of, I think, John Lennon is a very interesting mix of creative inginunity and contempeory pictures. The stephoscope on the road gives the definite crazy feel to this otherwise formal picture. I personally think he is trying to find the beat of the city.

John and Yoko on the cover of Happy Xmas (War is Over), holding a gigantic sign protesting the war. I think this is not the best, the background takes away from the scene more than it should, and if the war is over, than why is there a "if you want it to be" on the bottom of the poster.

Can I please get a 'what the' here, this is just a really weird picture from what I have seen of Iain's work. The guy does not need to be standing like that, and he needs to get a better dog to fit the scene. Also, it looks like the guy and the dog are superimposed on a backdrop of Abbey Street because they look clearer than the background, and the shadows are on slightly different angles.

This is the back cover for the Abbey Road album. Nicely put with the sign, but this is the girl who he got mad at for walking into the picture. He really needs to get rid of the girl, but he needs some sort of plant in it.

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