The Long Road to Brooklyn: Inside the Making of Paul McCartney’s ‘1963–64: Eyes of the Storm’

Cue the screaming girls! But keep your voice down, please. Not long ago, a Beatle invaded New York City yet again. This time, however, a member of the Fab Four went to the Brooklyn Museum. “Paul was actually just here visiting,” Sarah Brown, the rock legend’s personal photo archivist, told me as she took me through the institution’s fifth floor last month.

The reason for McCartney’s visit was a walkthrough of the music legend’s roving photography and relic exhibition “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64...