Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, fine edges, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, heavy curl to front top edge, 1 inch tear and heavy rubbing at front top right corner. ABOUT THIS: John Lennon's place as one of the greatest figures in modern music has been assured ever since his epic rise to fame in the early 'sixties as leader of the Beatles. It was during those same epoch-making years that Demo Hoffmann was their friend and photographer: his pictures helped fix the down-to•earth. happy-go-luckv image which for most people is the impression that survives of that period in rock history. The photographs here date from 1962 to 1970. but concentrate mainly on 1963 and 1964 - the years in which the Beatles won over both Britain and America. Dezo Hoffmann was there to record John's every mood and moment. giving us fascinating glimpses of Lennon as hero and husband. conqueror and clown boo-newt-door and genius. The fact that these photographs were conceived originally as news pictures. spontaneous and unposed adds an essential rearm enhanced by Hoffmann's personal approach of always using available light in preference to flash_ This technique. learned during his years as a film-maker. gives the pictures a satisfying depth and substance. Had John lived. he would have been exactly 45 years old at the time of this collection's publication. Here. for all John Lennon's admirers. fans and friends. is not only an excellent photo album. but a reminder of a phenomenon.