By Paul Saltzman
Preface by Tim B. Wride
Foreword by Donovan Leitch

In 1968, The Beatles wrote forty-eight songs in fewer thatn eight weeks. While they were in India, at the same time, photographer Paul Saltzman had traveled to India in search of himself.

To his great surprise, while staying at the ashram of the Marharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, he met The Beatles! Paul learned meditation and hung out with them, their wives, and friends including Donovan and Mia Farrow. Thirty years later his daughter asked to see the photographs he’d taken and put away, forgotten in his basement.

Now these photographs are available in two delux limited edition books.

Special Limited Edition

Numbered Special Edition, limited to 1968 copies
105 pages, including 69 pgs. of color illustrations, 12 copper and 5 vellum pgs. & 28 mendhi designs
Full Japanese Saifu, hand bound book
Padded hardcover book 14 1/2×11"
Encased in a 18 1/2×14" clamshell box
Clamshell box wrapped in fine Japanese Saifu cloth
Special Edition DVD with Paul Saltzman
Special Edition CD: Craig Pruess’ Beatles music on sitar

Super Deluxe Limited Edition

Numbered Limited Edition, limited to 350 copies
105 pages, including 69 pgs. of color illustrations, 12 copper and 5 vellum pgs. & 28 mendhi designs
Full leather, hand bound book
Padded hardcover book 14 1/2×11"
Encased in a 18 1/2×14" clamshell box
Clamshell box wrapped in Japanese Asahi silk

Limited Edition 11×14" photographic C-print:
The Beatles in Rishikesh-1968 [upper right], museum-quality, limited to 350 ($800 value)
Special Edition DVD with Paul Saltzman
Special Edition CD: Craig Pruess’ Beatles music on sitar

Author-photographer, Paul Saltzman: with the first copy of the Super Deluxe Limited Edition The Beatles in India box set, including one fine art, limited edition photograhic print, a CD of Beatles compositions on sitar and a DVD with the TBII Story.

The photographs

The photographs from the book are available either as unframed giclee prints in three sizes
(11" x14", 16" x 20", 22" x 30")
or as unframed c-prints in five sizes
(12" x 16", 16" x 20", 20 " x 24", 30" x 40" 48" x 72").

Please contact us at info@eastendbookstore.com for pricing and editioning information

Link to downloadable pdf

“Paul Saltzman’s meditative photographs from the ashram are unique. You never see the Beatles like this. We threw off our Western clothes. We took up our silk pantaloons. We could be ourselves again. And who ourselves were—who ourselves are—we were keen to find out.”

– Donovan Leitch

“Paul Saltzman’s photos of all of us in India, in 1968, are absolutely beautiful. The photo of John, finger to his ear, is the best picture I’ve ever seen of John Lennon from the Beatles’ era—it speaks volumes.”

– Cynthia Lennon

“Saltzman’s images are irresistible—the more one looks into them, the more they relinquish their secrets. Tiny details and unnoticed associations coalesce around the unplanned and the unexpected.”

– Tim B. Wride, Curator of Photography

“The intimacy of these frames is remarkable—some of the best I have seen—providing a significant addition to the detail of the most important rock group the world has known.”

– Stephen Maycock, Curator of Rock 'n' Roll Memorabilia

“I love Paul’s pictures of the Beatles. His photographs are so personal. He’s captured them as they were.”

– Astrid Kirchherr

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