Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles on the film set of ‘A Hard Days Night’, London, 1964 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) Halsman’s true gift lay in

Halsman’s true gift lay in encouraging his many subjects to pose naturally for the camera

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Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles on the film set of ‘A Hard Days Night’, London, 1964 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) Halsman’s true gift lay inIn 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