Alisdair Macdonald Explained

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]}

Notes and References

1. News: Alisdair Macdonald: 1940-2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20111206021358/http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2007/03/26/alisdair-macdonald-1940-2007/. dead. 6 December 2011. 5 November 2017.
2. News: Obituaries Alisdair Macdonald. 5 November 2017.
3. Web site: 31 March 2007 . Obituaries - Alisdair Macdonald . 2022-05-20 . Press Gazette . en-US.
4. Book: Davis, Andy . Beatles files . 1998 . CLB International . 1-85833-857-3 . Godalming, Surrey, England . 40266585.
5. Web site: 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. Book: Macdonald, Helen. 2014 . H is for Hawk. London. Jonathan Cape. 978-0224097000.