George Harrison’s Beatles-era photos to be released in new book The Third Eye

A book of Beatles-era photographs taken by George Harrison, many of them never published, will be released next year.

Random House announced that The Third Eye, which includes more than 250 black and white and colour images, is scheduled for autumn 2026.

Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, compiled and curated the book, which covers the years 1963-69 and includes photos of The Beatles everywhere from their native Liverpool to India to Shea Stadium.

“I want to show people, from George’s unique photographic perspective during the Beatles’ early years, the moments when the whole of your life is ahead of you with unknowable possibilities,” Olivia Harrison said of her late husband, who died in 2001, in a statement released by Random House.

“His images in The Third Eye capture that spirit.”

The Harrison book features essays by Olivia Harrison and by two celebrated literary authors: Irish novelist Colm Toibin, a former chancellor of the University of Liverpool, wrote the introduction, and American short story writer George Saunders contributed an epilogue.

The Third Eye also includes George Harrison’s words alongside his pictures.

Fellow Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr have also released photo books.

Sir Ringo’s Photograph, also the title of a hit song written by Sir Ringo and Harrison, came out in 2015.

In 2023, Sir Paul published 1964: Eyes Of The Storm.