Alisdair Macdonald

This article is about the British press photographer. For people by the same name, see Alastair McDonald (disambiguation).
Alisdair Macdonald at the Daily Mirror offices, 1962

Alisdair Macdonald (1940-2007) was a British press photographer[1] who worked for 26 years with the Daily Mirror.[2] He took a seven-year break to help launch the first full-colour national newspaper Today.[3]

In 1963 Macdonald travelled with the Beatles to Paris to document their shows at the Olympia. He would regularly photograph the band, up to and beyond their break up in 1970.[4]

In 1989 he won first place in the Humour category of the World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a workman leaving the scene of a burst water main.[5]

After his death, his child Helen Macdonald adopted a goshawk to help them cope and later wrote H is for Hawk about the experience.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Alisdair Macdonald: 1940-2007". Archived from the original on 6 December 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Obituaries Alisdair Macdonald". Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Obituaries - Alisdair Macdonald". Press Gazette. 31 March 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  4. ^ Davis, Andy (1998). Beatles files. Godalming, Surrey, England: CLB International. ISBN 1-85833-857-3. OCLC 40266585.
  5. ^ "1989 Alisdair MacDonald HM1 | World Press Photo".
  6. ^ Stephen Moss, Helen Macdonald: a bird’s eye view of love and loss, The Guardian, 5 November 2014.
  7. ^ Macdonald, Helen (2014). H is for Hawk. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224097000.


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