Photo: Celebrity devotees of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and friends, at his academy in India, high up in the Himalayas, where they are studying transcendental meditation, March 1968. From left to right: Patti Boyd, John Lennon (1940 - 1980), Mike Love of The Beach Boys, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917 - 2008), George Harrison (1943 - 2001), actress Mia Farrow, Donovan, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher (at one time McCartney's fiancé), Cynthia Lennon.(Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Canadian photographer and director Paul Saltzman was 23 when he went off to India in 1968 to meditate at the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
While he was there, the Beatles showed up, along with Mia Farrow, Donovan, Mike Love of the Beach Boys and various consorts. Saltzman connected with the celebrated Liverpudlians, who let him photograph them as they kicked back and made music, attired in white-cotton garb, sandals and flower necklaces.
Years later, Saltzman published the pictures from that fruitful sojourn - during which the Beatles wrote a slew of songs, many of which they recorded on "The White Album" - in his book "The Beatles in India." A bunch of them are on view through the end of the year at the San Francisco Art Exchange, at 458 Geary St.
(2008 Dec 17 / Jesse Hamlin)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/17/DDIP14CTOB.DTL&type=art
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