Intimate portraits of John Lennon and Ringo Starr have gone on display for the first time in a show in New York City.

The exhibit, John Lennon and Ringo Starr: A Time Remembered, is made up of works by photographer Nancy Lee Andrews, Starr's former fiancee, and May Pang, personal assistant turned personal companion to Lennon.

Long-time friends Andrews and Pang decided to put on a 'ladies show' of photos that had never before been released to the public.

Both women expressed the challenges of deciding which photographs to include in the exhibit.

"I wanted to pick the pictures that really spoke for themselves and brought the spirit out of the person I was shooting," Andrews said.

Pang decided to display only nine of her photographs at a time, in tribute to Lennon's lucky number. She plans to do a total of nine exhibits, each displaying nine photos.

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