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To paraphrase a classic Beatles song, money can\u2019t buy you love. But if you\u2019ve got a spare 20 grand it could buy you a beautifully printed, slightly out of focus black and white photograph of John Lennon<\/a> taken by Paul McCartney during the onset of Beatlemania.<\/p>\n An intimate exhibition of McCartney\u2019s personal photographs of his fellow Beatles opens at the Gagosian gallery in the West End of London today, offering very limited edition (no more than ten copies each) signed prints of a select few images and blown-up contact sheets. Prices vary from \u00a320,000 to \u00a380,000, so it is not to everyone\u2019s budget. Almost all the pictures have been seen before, in McCartney\u2019s photobook<\/a> 1964: Eye of the Storm <\/em>(published by Allen Lane in 2023 and retailing at a more affordable \u00a360). But it is worth a visit to see the lovingly restored images up close and personal, and feel the Beatles staring back at you through history.<\/p>\n There is something strangely moving about being confronted by the young Lennon, aged 23, looking with such frankness, friendliness and smiling intimacy into the camera lens, knowing that he is really looking straight into the eye of his songwriting partner. It is as if we are able to make a connection across a vast span of time into which has been poured all kinds of extraneous information that threatens to cloud the picture, all the pop culture myths, personal opinions, unreliable memories, disputed histories, wild fantasies and critical theories about the relationship between the two human beings on either side of this 35mm camera.<\/p>\n