Astrid Kirchherr - Great Photog who gave it up - unsure of her talent

[CameraQuest]

NPR interview of Astrid Kirchherr -

I love her work and her talent. Without Astrid, would the Beatles have been as successful? I doubt it.

Yet she was unsure of her talent, so she gave it up.

"I wasn't sure if I'm really good or is it just the Beatles that made me, sort of in a way, famous? And I wasn't sure anymore if I'm good or not so I just gave it up."

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[charjohncarter]

She was pretty young to throw it in, especially after such a good start. Picasso had Guernica and lived off his fame from that for 50 years.

 

[retinax]

Imposter syndrome must have robbed the world of many great artists. The Dunning-Kruger effect has blessed us with a bunch of monkeys with typewriters in turn.

 

[helen.HH]

Talent can be so hard to navigate...
Astrid was not only Talented but Pretty & Stylish too !

her obituary :

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/17/astrid-kirchherr-obituary

 

[ranger9]

Based on a close reading of the Guardian obituary, I'm not sure she “gave it up” — she worked as a professional photographer through the 1970s, took a break to work as a designer, then started a photo agency in 1988 and continued to organize exhibits of her work until at least 2018. Her early association with the Beatles may simply have been a “lightning in a bottle” moment that never repeated itself. They were in the right place at the right time for her, and she was in the right place at the right time for them.

 

[raydm6]

Interesting tidbit if true:

She was, for example, the one to first cut their hair into their iconic mop tops, which were initially favored by the local German boys Kirchherr grew up around.

The Woman Who First Photographed the Beatles Also Gave Them Their Iconic Style

See what the band looked like in their teens, before Astrid Kirchherr gave them their signature mop tops.

www.wmagazine.com