Astrid Kirchherr, the German-born photographer who first captured the Beatles, has died at the age of 81. German newspaper Die Zeit confirmed Kirchherr’s death, noting the photographer died of a ...

Earlier this month, the world lost Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer and artist who helped put the Beatles on the map in the early 1960s with her distinctive black-and-white photographs.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison paid tribute to German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, who reportedly died in Hamburg, Germany on Tuesday at 81 years old.

The German photographer is credited with taking some of the earliest photos of the iconic band Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018 ...

Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer who shot some of the earliest and most striking images of the Beatles and had a lasting impact on their visual style, has died in Hamburg, the German city ...

The stark black-and-white photographs she took of the group in Hamburg, Germany, before the musicians were famous captured both their toughness and their sensitivity. By Allan Kozinn Astrid Kirchherr, ...