The Postal Service will honor the art and life of photographer, author, musician and animal rights activist Linda McCartney with five stamps featuring images of her work.
The stamps will be released on Friday, Sept. 25, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Born Linda Eastman in Scarsdale, NY, in 1941, she rose to prominence in 1966 after photographing the Rolling Stones while working as an editorial receptionist at Town and Country magazine. The editors were so impressed with her work that they turned the images into a feature.
It became the first of many magazine spreads, with Eastman becoming known as a chronicler of 1960s music culture. A 1968 portrait of Eric Clapton made her the first female photographer whose work appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
She met future husband — Paul McCartney, guitarist for British rock band the Beatles — while on assignment in London in 1967. They married two years later.
Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States as well as at the Royal Photographic Society and the Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom.
She later became a founding member of the pop-rock band Wings and an influential figure in the vegetarianism movement.
Linda McCartney died in 1998 at age 56 in Tucson, AZ.
The stamps and stamp pane were designed by Derry Noyes, an art director with USPS, using five McCartney photographs.
The Forever stamps will be sold in panes of 20 and will be available at Post Offices and on usps.com.
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