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Color 28 x 20 giclée print of Paul McCartney at the confetti-strewn close of his October 7, 2002 concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, arms flung overhead as the paper falls around him, photographed by Bill Bernstein and signed in the lower border in pencil by McCartney, "Paul McCartney," and by the photographer, "Bill Bernstein." The show was part of the Back in the U.S. leg of McCartney's Driving World tour—his first touring year in nearly a decade—and here he wears the red 'No More Landmines' shirt of the Adopt-a-Minefield campaign he and Heather Mills backed throughout the run.
Entitled 'Flutterfetti Finale,' the image catches the moment that ended each night on the tour: a cascade of confetti over the stage as McCartney took his bow. The shirt was a fixture of those encores, McCartney using the tour's reach to raise money and awareness for the landmine-clearance charity, and Bernstein's frame turns a stadium ritual into something close and unguarded—the singer mid-shout, caught between performance and release.
The image appears on page 124 of Bernstein's book Each One Believing: Onstage, Off Stage and Backstage (Chronicle Books, 2004), and was later issued as a hand-signed Hahnemühle print through the Morrison Hotel Gallery. These prints were never a numbered edition. They were offered only through the traveling 'Each One Believing' exhibition, which moved among a small group of galleries—among them the Morrison Hotel Gallery and the San Francisco Art Exchange—from 2006 into 2007, and each was signed in pencil by both McCartney and Bernstein. Rather than a fixed run, the total is capped simply by the number of collectors who bought one during those brief shows, and because McCartney long ago stopped signing them, authorized signatures were only available for sale during that time period. Acquiring one was seldom immediate: each purchased sheet had to travel out afterward for both signatures, and per the consignor, this example was bought on the gallery tour but not delivered until roughly a year later. Of the assignment, Bernstein reflected, in part: "The opportunity to photograph McCartney's entire World Tour and to be given such astounding access has been a high point of my career." In very fine condition. Accompanied by the publisher's certificate of authenticity.
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