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==Early life== <!-- Put references into this article from books or web pages or your edit will be deleted --> Kirchherr was born on 20 May 1938<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leigh |first=Spencer |date=17 May 2020 |title=Astrid Kirchherr obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/17/astrid-kirchherr-obituary |access-date=13 May 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> in Hamburg, Germany, and was the daughter of a former executive of the German branch of the [[Ford Motor Company]]{{sfn|Harry|1997|p=179}} and was brought up by her [[widowed]] mother, Nielsa Kirchherr, on Eimsbütteler Strasse, in a wealthy part of the Hamburg suburb of [[Altona, Hamburg|Altona]].{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=64}} During World War II, she was [[Emergency evacuation|evacuated]] to the safety of the [[Baltic Sea]] where she remembered seeing dead bodies on the shore (after the ships ''[[Cap Arcona]]'' and the SS ''[[SS Deutschland (1923)|Deutschland]]'' had been bombed and sunk) and the [[bombing of Hamburg in World War II|destruction in Hamburg]] when she returned.<ref name="InterviewAstridKirchherrRetrosellers">{{cite web |url=http://www.retrosellers.com/features10.htm |title=An interview with Astrid Kirchherr |publisher=Retrosellers |access-date=30 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204101432/http://www.retrosellers.com/features10.htm |archive-date=4 February 2012 }}</ref> After her graduation, Kirchherr enrolled in the Meisterschule für Mode, Textil, Grafik und Werbung in Hamburg, as she wanted to study fashion design but demonstrated a talent for [[black-and-white photography]].<ref name="RedfernsMusicPictureGallery">{{cite web|url=http://gallery2.redferns.com/gallery_text/photographer_biographies/astrid_kirchherr_biog.htm |title=Photographers: Astrid Kirchherr |publisher=Redferns Music Picture Gallery |access-date=30 May 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080119124001/http://gallery2.redferns.com/gallery_text/photographer_biographies/astrid_kirchherr_biog.htm |archive-date=19 January 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theater-schwedt.de/idx/info/1073/go/kirchherr/|title=Astrid Kirchherr|work=Happy Birthday Yellow Submarine|language=de|publisher=www.theater-schwedt.de|access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref> Reinhard Wolf, the school's main photographic tutor, convinced her to switch courses and promised that he would hire her as his assistant when she graduated.{{sfn|Harry|1997|p=179}} Kirchherr worked for Wolf as his assistant from 1959 until 1963.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=64}} In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kirchherr and her art school friends were involved in the European [[existentialist]] movement whose followers were later nicknamed [[Exi (subculture)|"Exis"]] by Lennon.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=222}} In 1995, she told [[BBC Radio Merseyside]]: "Our philosophy then, because we were only little kids, was wearing black clothes and going around looking moody. Of course, we had a clue who [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] was.<ref name="AstridInterviewNZ">{{cite web|url=http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/absoluteelsewhere/505/astrid-kirchherr-beatles-photographer-interviewed-1994-young-free-and-wild/ |title=Astrid Kirchherr, Beatles Photographer, Interviewed (1994): Young, Free And Wild |publisher=Elsewhere Ltd. |date=13 Mar 2008 |access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref> We got inspired by all the French artists and writers, because that was the closest we could get. England was so far away, and America was out of the question. So France was the nearest. So we got all the information from France, and we tried to dress like the French existentialists... We wanted to be free, we wanted to be different, and tried to be [[cool (aesthetic)|cool]], as we call it now."<ref name="InterviewBBCLiverpool">Kirchherr's interview with Spencer Leigh on BBC Radio Merseyside's 500th ''On the Beat'' programme, Saturday 26 August 1995.</ref><ref name="AstridKirchherrquotesPiczo">{{cite web|url=http://astridkirchherr.piczo.com/?g=15644731&cr=3|title=Astrid Kirchherr quotes |publisher=Piczo |access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref>
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