Sixties Fashion Icon Pattie Boyd to Release Photo NFT Collection

Pattie Boyd is releasing her first NFT collection on April 19th. It’ll be a photo collection from the 60s and 70s available on Rarible and RR Auction. Further, it will depict George Harrison, The Beatles, and Eric Clapton.

Pattie Boyd is a British music photographer who has been a cultural icon for years. Evidently, she is looking to give her loyal audience an opportunity to relive the 60s and 70s.

Pattie said, “I’m happy to start this adventure into NFTs.” Different versions of iconic photos from her archive will be featured.

These images have been seen before. Some are a part of Boyd’s first gallery show, “Through the Eye of a Muse,” which traveled from San Francisco to Dublin to Sydney to Almaty, Kazakhstan. The photos provide an intimate look at the life she shared with her first husband, Beatles’ guitarist George Harrison, and later her second husband, his best friend and guitar god Eric Clapton.

It also contains what Boyd claims is the world’s first “selfie,” discovered years after the fact that has gone on to be one of her best-selling photographs. “Without photographs, I don’t think I would remember half the things I experienced,” Boyd said in a video interview.

Boyd is not the first photographer or celebrity to sell bits of recent history as NFTs, a sort of crypto wrapping for digital files that gives them a signature, identity and lineage. Creators re selling you something – be it a token or a dream. Nor is Boyd the first musician’s muse to sell a closer look into that world. But she has been turned on to NFTs quicker than most artists of her generation.

Boyd, for her part, is characteristically reserved. She sees her “small collection” as a “little invitation to see how it’s enjoyed” and definitely not an artist’s “retrospective.”

“It’s a new innovative way of showing [her photographs]. It’s a different platform altogether,” she said. “I think [it] might introduce another group of people, as opposed to the people that normally go to my photographic exhibitions all over the world, which is very nice.”

Buyers of the crypto-based format, which contains both “static” images and “animated” ones, will also receive a print edition and voice recordings of Boyd reminiscing. It’s a way of imbuing a little personality, something kinetic to once celluloid-based images.

Her personal and professional interest in photography followed the market and she hardly ever uses film cameras anymore. “Digital is much quicker, much faster,” she said. “Now there is now a third step ahead, as far as this art form is concerned,” referring to NFTs.

Pattie Boyd Photography NFTs

The collection will feature 6 personal photos and 48 Digital assets. The unique 1/1 photos will be auctioned at the RR auction in April. The drop won’t be limited to crypto, as potential buyers will be able to bid in fiat. Especially appealing to her non-Web3 native fans.

Part two, the other aspect of this drop will be sold on Rarible. These collections will be auctioned off over a 14 day period. Bids for the ‘Collections’ drop will be available in Ethereum.

Finally, the last aspect of the drop is the ‘Editions’ which will be sold at a fixed price on April 19th. consequently, for anyone looking for the lowest entry point, this collection is it.

Zebu Digital is the studio bringing this NFT collection to life. Their platform moto is to make Web3 brands matter. Surely they will play a critical role, as it is Pattie’s first venture into the Web3 space. As well as the fact that Photography NFTs have yet to go fully mainstream in the NFT space.

A Return to 1960s Permissiveness And the Cyberlibertarianism

In some sense, the rapidly evolving world of NFTs – already filled with socialites including Paris Hilton, celebrated athletes such as quarterback Tom Brady and a range of musicians both new and old – is an echo of the Swinging Sixties Boyd lived through.

“Given the fact that Pattie’s attached to it, we hope that people will be able to see this is something that is a cut above the cannon fodder that’s littering 90% of OpenSea projects,” Hankin said, referring to the largest NFT marketplace.

Crypto, is something of a revolution looking to reshape everything from finance to the architecture of the internet – the world is still waiting to see if it’s a flash in the pan. Or we can say, Crypto, at its heart, is a return to 1960s permissiveness and the cyberlibertarianism that sprung from it.

“But, you know, it still has the same feeling of something new about to emerge,” Boyd said. “I want to touch it. I want to know what it’s about.”

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