BEATLES IN INDIA 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Launch of Paul Saltzman’s THE BEATLES IN INDIA
Morrison Hotel Gallery and photographer Paul Saltzman In association with The Indo-American-Arts Council celebrate the 40TH Anniversary of The Beatles in India.WHAT: An exhibition and sale of fine art music photography combined with demonstrations of Indian cultureWHERE: Morrison Hotel Gallery 124 Prince Street New York, NY 10012 212- 971-8770WHEN: Saturday April 12th, 2008, 2PM. Exhibit continues through April 30th, 2008In 1968 the Beatles yet again transformed the trajectory of music and pop culture when they decided to travel to India to practice transcendental meditation at Maharishi Mahesh's ashram. Their stay in Rishikesh was a creative outpouring that culminated in an astounding 48 songs being written in 7 weeks, including many from the White Album, including beloved titles such as "Dear Prudence" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da."Photographer Paul Saltzman was a young traveler that happened to be at the ashram at the same time as the Beatles (along with Donovan, Mike Love of the Beach Boys and Mia Farrow). Saltzman beautifully captured the magic of the Beatles' stay in India. His intimate and uplifting images show the Beatles composing music and at peace in the vibrancy of their surroundings and the richness of Indian culture. The Morrison Hotel Gallery is proud to exhibit the photography of the Beatles' stay in India in association with the Indo-American Arts Council. Please join us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Beatles in India. Paul Saltzman's fine art music photography will be available for purchase.Special event: Steven Chen will hold a beginner's yoga class on Saturday, April 12th at noon. Steven will be teaching the class Hatha-Raja Astanga Yoga, which he learned from his Guru Dhrma Mithra. The class is on a first come, first serve basis. Maximum capacity is limited to twenty people. Please bring your own mat. Namaste. www.morrisonhotelgallery.comwww.iaac.us

PAUL SALTZMAN Author, Photographer, Filmmaker, Hockey player.
Paul Saltzman is a two-time Emmy Award winning Toronto-based film and television producer-director known for over 300 productions. After briefly studying Engineering Science, he did congressional civil rights lobbying in Washington, D.C., and voter registration work in Mississippi. He began his film and television career in 1965 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a researcher, interviewer and on-air host, and then moved to the National Film Board of Canada. In 1967 he interviewed American inventor and visionary Buckminster Fuller, who would later say that Saltzman changed his assessment of the '60s generation. Early in 1968 he learned meditation at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, an experience that changed his life. While there, he photographed the Beatles, Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Love. In 1968-69 he assisted in the birth of a new film format as second-unit director and production manager of the first IMAX film, produced for the Osaka 1970 World's Fair. In the summer of 1969, he attended the original Woodstock Music Festival; and in the early '70s he produced a Leonard Cohen live concert tour. In 1972 he produced and directed his first film, a half-hour documentary on Bo Diddley. In 1973, Paul founded Sunrise Films Limited. He produced and directed documentaries for the next decade, including the acclaimed series Spread Your Wings. His work included producing, directing, writing, editing, cinematography and sound recording. In 1983, he turned to drama, producing and directing the premier of HBO's Family Playhouse and a special for American Playhouse. In the same year, he co-created and produced the family action-adventure television series Danger Bay. The hit CBC-Disney Channel series ran for 6 years and 123 episodes before moving into re-runs. Since then he has produced television series like My Secret Identity, Matrix and Max Glick, as well as miniseries and movies of the week. He co-produced the feature film Map of the Human Heart, an international epic directed by Vincent Ward, starring Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, John Cusack and Jean Moreau. He also executive produced Martha, Ruth & Edie as well as Sam & Me, which received an Honorable Mention in competition for the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2000, Paul released his first book, The Beatles in Rishikesh, through the Viking Studio, Penguin Putnam. In early 2006 he self-published his second book, a deluxe Limited Edition Box-Set, The Beatles in India, complete with Limited Edition archival chromogenic print, an original CD and an original DVD. He is currently developing several feature film scripts as well as having optioned the film, video and related CD-rom rights to the Vatican Library. Paul is a member of the Director's Guild of Canada and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. He loves travelling, skydiving and scuba diving, and plays ice hockey several times a week. He has one daughter. Paul Saltzman's meditative photographs from the ashram are unique. You never see the Beatles like this. We threw off our Western clothes. We took up our silk pantaloons. We could be ourselves again. And who ourselves were-who ourselves are-we were keen to find out. - Donovan Leitch
Paul Saltzman's photos of all of us in India, in 1968, are absolutely beautiful. The photo of John, finger to his ear, is the best picture I've ever seen of John Lennon from the Beatles' era-it speaks volumes. - Cynthia Lennon
Saltzman's images are irresistible-the more one looks into them, the more they relinquish their secrets. Tiny details and unnoticed associations coalesce around the unplanned and the unexpected.-Tim B. Wride, Curator of Photography, LACMA
The intimacy of these frames is remarkable-some of the best I have seen-providing a significant addition to the detail of the most important rock group the world has known- Stephen Maycock, Curator of Rock 'n' Roll Memorabilia
I love Paul's pictures of the Beatles. His photographs are so personal. He's captured them as they were. - Astrid Kirchherr, Author, Photographer

Author-photographer, Paul Saltzman: with the first copy of the Super Deluxe Limited Edition 'The Beatles in India' box set, including one fine art, limited edition photograhic print, a CD of Beatles compositions on sitar and a DVD with the TBII Story.
In 1968, the Beatles wrote 48 songs in fewer than eight weeks in India. Now, on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s death, and the 40th anniversary of George Harrison’s ground-breaking introduction of the sitar in Norwegian Wood—an event that would change the face of rock ‘n’ roll music forever—The Beatles in India Super Deluxe and Special Limited Edition books are being released to commemorate the single most creative period in the history of the most important rock band the world has known.
These two elegantly designed, large format, collector’s box sets celebrate the unparalleled majesty of the Beatles’ music and creativity, as well as the intimacy of Paul Saltzman’s unique photographs and candid text.
In December 1967, 23 year-old Paul Saltzman traveled to India in search of himself. To his great surprise, he found the Beatles in India. Paul spent a magical week at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram. He learned meditation and hung out with John, Paul, George and Ringo. Thirty years later, he found the photos he'd shot and put away in a cardboard box: The Beatles in India.
"...like a footprint left in the sand, and I'm reminded of the path that's been washed away and the Greek proverb, 'You can never enter the same river twice.' As the ashram I knew is gone, so too are the Beatles. And yet, we can evoke their magic through their music, their words, and their photographs."