Robert Freeman is a photographer who is most famous for his album cover photos for The Beatles.
He was the Beatles' most favoured photographer during the years 1963 to 1966 and shot arguably the most iconic images of them. He photographed and designed the covers for five consecutive album covers of the Beatles.
Freeman first came to the business as a photo journalist working for the British newspaper The Sunday Times for which he photographed a variety of subjects including Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin. He had also become noted for his black-and-white photographs of jazz musicians including John Coltrane. It was these photographs that impressed the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein and the Beatles themselves and led to his first photoshoot with the group in August 1963. He was also selected to photograph the entirety of the first ever Pirelli Calendar shot in 1963 for the year 1964. He graduted from cambridge in 1959
