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Linda McCartney Linda McCartney died in Santa Barbara, California, April 17, a statement from the pop star's press office said April 19. She had been suffering from breast cancer which had spread to her liver, the statement said. McCartney taught herself how to take pictures. Her formal photographic education began and ended with one evening's class at a night school in Arizona, where she lived in the early 1960s. Based on a roll of film taken with a borrowed camera in the desert, McCartney's teacher advised her to keep shooting, and she embarked on a career as a photographer. Her break came in 1966 when she wangled her way onto a yacht to photograph the Rolling Stones for a spread in Town and Country magazine, where she had been working as a receptionist. McCartney became a rock portraitist: She was the first photographer at Rolling Stone magazine, and she placed her gritty images of Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead in a host of rock journals. It was in 1967, while on a photo shoot with the Beatles, that she met her future husband, Paul McCartney. In the past 30 years, though, McCartney had been working steadily, and her depictions of animals and plants (she was an ardent vegetarian and animal-rights activist), along with her many still lifes and landscapes, formed the basis for various books, including "Sun Prints" and "Roadworks." Linda McCartney, the photographer who married the pop icon and launched her own career as an animal rights activist and vegetarian entrepreneur, died at the family ranch in Arizona after a three-year fight against cancer. McCartney, 56, died with husband Sir Paul and their family at her bedside while on vacation in the U.S. Widespread grief at her death was amplified by its suddenness; it had been thought that she was winning her battle against the breast cancer that was diagnosed in 1995, and the couple had recently been seen in public, notably at recent exhibitions of the work of their fashion designer daughter, Stella. Linda McCartney's ashes were scattered in the countryside near her family's home in Peasmarsh, East Sussex, in a quiet ceremony attended by Sir Paul; their children, Stella, James, and Mary; and Linda's daughter from her first marriage, Heather. Born Sept. 24, 1941, in New York, Linda Louise Eastman was part of a wealthy family with show-business connections. Her father was a successful copyright lawyer and a partner in the firm of Eastman & Eastman, who were later appointed general counsel to the Beatles' Apple label.
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