A thread of my favourite John Lennon portraits, on what would have been his 80th birthday. #JohnLennon80
David Bailey, 1965

John Lennon with his mum Julia, Ardmore, Cheshire, 1948
Photo: Mark & Colleen Hayward

Robert Freeman
John Lennon With Panda, 1965
Just about my favourite John Lennon picture
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Coffee with John Lennon
At Lou Adler's house in Beverly Hills
Photo: Michael Brennan, 1973
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon
Photo: Linda McCartney, London, 1968
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Astrid Kirchherr's 1960 Hamburg Funfair photo of the Beatles
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Astrid Kirchherr's shot of John Lennon, with Stu Suttcliffe in the background, 1960.
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John Lennon in Paris
Photo: Harry Benson, 1964
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Henry Leutwyler
John Lennon's glasses
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John & Yoko in New York
Photo: Bob Gruen, 1973
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More John Lennon from Bob Gruen, 1974
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John Lennon dressed as a Public Lavatory Commissionaire during the filming of the Not Only...But Also Xmas Special
Photo: Ron Case, 1966
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono in a great portrait by Jack Mitchell, taken on November 2, 1980 (his last photo shoot).
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John Lennon by Robert Whitaker, 1964
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Bob Gruen
Harry Nilsson & John Lennon playing pool at Record Plant East, NYC, 1974
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Only You

Philip Jones Griffiths, #JohnLennon memorial service, December 1980, Central Park
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John Lennon by Brian Duffy, 1965
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John Lennon in colour
Linda McCartney, London, 1969
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This is amazing: Dudley Reed's photograph of John Lennon's bedroom. The Bardot film was released in the UK in 1956, when Lennon was 16.
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Some day all this will be yours.
John Lennon showing Sean the mixing table at The Hit Factory
Photo: Bob Gruen, 1980
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John Lennon by Richard Avedon
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Rip It Up

"We thought we were very far from being happy then, & now we think the opposite. It's the trick of nostalgia, removing bitter moments from their place & painting them another color, & putting them back where they no longer hurt." - Gabriel García Márquez
David Hurn, 1964

John Lennon by Robert Whitaker
cibachrome print, 1965
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John & George by Astrid Kirchherr
gelatin silver print, 1962
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