Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles on the film set of ‘A Hard Days Night’, London, 1964 Framing:Unframed who would become a close

who would become a close friend and facilitate Davidson’s induction into Magnum Photos

While working as a photojournalist

I was overwhelmed by the great vitality of what I saw

two years after his work in Ecuador covering Operation Auca

Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles on the film set of ‘A Hard Days Night’, London, 1964 Framing:Unframed who would become a closeIn 1964, I was asked by a friend Dick Lester who was about to direct the first Beatles film A Hard Days Night, to photograph the film, not for press, but more from a sociological point of view, explains David Hurn, when asked how he came to photograph the most famous band in the world, as they played themselves in A Hard Days Night. Over roughly seven weeks in 1964, Hurn witnessed the complete chaos that surrounded the Beatles, then at the apex of