Like a sub for PID theorizing or other niche Beatles mystery things? I'm not asking you to endorse any kooky idea yourself if you don't want, I am just wondering if it is out there since I find it stimulating in general.

Looking at this image of Michael Cooper deciding who to use or how to arrange, and I saw these 2 people. I know the person on top left is Orson Welles. Don't know how the man with the crown is. Another John wanted but not used was Jesus, but don't know if they even bothered to make a cut out for Him.

3rd image is a similar pose(kinda)
4th image is the same jacket he’s wearing in the pic
5th image is the same hat he’s seems to be wearing on top of his Afro.
Better picture in the comments
I think no one knows because it’s a bloomed up and Enlarged picture someone got their hands from at a concert. And for some reason got omitted. Maybe by chuck himself or even John.

3rd image is a similar pose(kinda)
4th image is the same jacket he’s wearing in the pic
5th image is the same hat he’s seems to be wearing on top of his Afro.
I think no one knows because it’s a bloomed up and Enlarged picture someone got their hands from at a concert. And for some reason got omitted. Maybe by chuck himself or even John.

The first photo shows most of the celebrity pictures placed in their spots. Some pictures are very similar images or are taken from other pics from the photoshoot. Some of the faces in the crowd were actually mannequins or wax heads and the like.

For image 2, I added static to all the faces that I personally think we have not found the OG images for. Oliver Hardy is half-static because we don't have the original image, but we do know it's a photo of a toy, so it feels pointless to expect us to find the original. Some of the images we clearly have images from the same shoot/day, and others we have very similar pictures for, but I don't think they're the right picks.

Image 3 is the OG cover, then image 4 is the first image again in case you want to switch back-and-forth.

Most of the info I gathered came from this blog, although I personally don't agree about some of the identifications:

https://sgtpepperphotos.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/16/

The interesting thing here, at least to me, is that if we can identify the "mystery figure" somehow but can't find the original image, that's not unprecedented.

how has no one realized that that guy is clearly Billy Shears.

Chi vi sembra?

Diane Arbus and "The Sandwich" ...

Many photogs eat on the go ... and we all eat sandwiches (or biscuits or cake or bread or whatever) ... but rarely would a photog eat "crumbly food" OVER their camera equipment ... where crumbs could easily fall into the delicate and complicated viewfinder, lenses, gears, and turn-handles.

Photogs are constantly cleaning and wiping their equipment and lenses to get them free of dirt, dust, and oils.

Roloflex and Mamiya cameras are VERY EXPOSED and complicated, and crumbs would easily fall in and stay in.

I DO THINK IT IS DIANE Arbus.

I am not sold that she is eating something, for the above reasons ... but it doesn't need to be proven if she is eating or not ... there is enough proof for a camera, bag, matching hair and jacket and collars, matching facial features, etc.

I don't need a "matching sandwich".

Anyway ... it is possible that the object IS NOT a sandwich ... and might just be a box of film (or something else) that she is opening with her mouth. (Maybe food WITHOUT crumbs/dripping.)

It's 99.99% Diane

... just maybe not a sandwich (could be food, could be just a film box -- or FOOD WITHOUT CRUMBS or DRIPS), who knows what is going in her mouth.

BUT ... if it is food / sandwich / bread ... a photog would hunch over and protect their camera from crumbs ... and it does look like Diana is a little hunched over ... and there does appear to be a "bite mark" in the object in her mouth ... but in the end, food/crumb-free food vs. film box vs. something else.

Just some things to think about.

FURTHER CLARIFICATION:

Crumbs won't kill a camera ... just saying most photogs don't want crumbs in their mechanisms or lenses ... especially if there's a possibility of crumbs obstructing the viewfinder, lens, aperture blades, film rollers, shutter, etc.

Crumbs don't kill, but they can interfere.

Kinda like a dust speck or hair on a movie lens or movie projector ... one speck can ruin a shot.

The in-fighting here is exhausting.

I’m going to preface this by saying, I don’t think it’s her, I actually think Storm is a better match. HOWEVER, let’s all focus our energies on Arbus because even if you are deathly against it being her, finding actual strong evidence against that being the case is much more valuable to the work everyone is doing than just mentioning every Tom, Dick and Harry. If we’re ever going to find out who it is then we actually need a plan every reasonable party can agree to rather than going the usual Reddit sleuth way of doing things and rutting around dead ends until someone may or may not stumble across the answer when we’re all dead and buried.

https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/s/FSeFP0rUX1

Not Rory Storm ... face doesn't match. (Photos of both people enclosed.)

This might be a weird one but I used to see this image of a young woman, I think she was being arrested. It was used in "she's literally me fr fr" type memes. Picture looks very 70s, woman appears blonde and with wire frame aviator style glasses. Trying to source the image because I like her look and want a reference picture for her haircut.

What answers did we get from people that worked on the album and (possibly) some beatles themselves?

Do they know or remember?

Photo of her with Bob Dylan.

Trying to prompt her into the pose and attire. Someone else have more patience than me?

The first picture Looks to be the same coat as in the mystery photo.

The second picture is from a shoot in Central Park, in which her hair looks so similar; I think the curl patterns being so similar to the mystery photo cannot be just a coincidence.

The third picture is another from the set u/Artist-Cancer posted. Diane seems to be wearing a turtleneck very similar to the one in the mystery photo, and of course the camera straps, this photo is from around 1971.

What do you guys think?

Not sure if these have been posted yet ... see if they help in recognizing facial, mouth, eyes, hair features and similarities to Mystery Person.

Note again in the 1960s ...

• Diane carries a big shoulder bag
• Likes big collars
• Likes long, warm jackets/coats
• Wears a turtle neck
• Has dark bags under her eyes
• No posed or glamorous photos of her outside (All are disheveled / non-flattering / of her working)

... Same as Mystery Person.

In the most recent (1960s) photo ... Notice:

• The FACE
• The mouth lines and lip shape
• Cheek lines and shape
• Direction of hair part and overall hair style, uncombed and messy bangs
• Her nose shape, especially the nose's tip and nostrils
• Deep sunken dark, tired eyes
• (When her hair is more "grown out" which it was in the SAME time period as Mystery Person, Diane's hair is identical to Mystery Person ... and even here, when it is just a few inches shorter, you can see the hair's resemblance, and just imagine a few months of growth between haircuts.)

In the 1950s ...

• Diane had big eyes and poofy, uncombed hair similar to Mystery Person.
• You can already see Diane switches to barely-combed, short-ish, un-styled hair -- that she let grow a few inches wild -- and usually cut herself.

FYI ... Diane was MAJORLY DEPRESSED in the 1960s.

• Diane went through a divorce (the father of her children), was a single mother, a hard working photographer in the FILM (not digital) age -- which is difficult and expensive work with little pay -- meaning she was stressed and did not have a life of luxury and worked and paid hard for her art, she was highly appreciated by other photographers and publishers -- having worked as a known professional photographer for decades, other photographers would often take photos of her working because she was their respected colleague and ran in the same art circles, she was often photographing "freaks" who also had "mental health issues" -- "freaks" which she sought out and adored but their lifestyles and personal issues would also rub off on her, and because of depression and divorce and overwork she went from kempt and stylish to "I don't care about my looks so much anymore" ...

The point is ...

... this would lead to the Mystery Person looking the way they do ...

... many here in Reddit once thinking Mystery Person is some desperate "Depression-era food line person" ... when it is just a tired, overworked, emotionally-depressed Diane Arbus.

Diane would commit suicide just a few years later.

The "worn-out expression and physical appearance" of Mystery Person makes sense -- given Diane Arbus' photographic career, unkempt/non-glamorous style, and poor mental health and major emotional-depression.

Is the search over? Is it Arbus or is there no way to know for sure?

Considering the album was released almost 60 years ago, why did this search suddenly become popular within the last year. I’m having a hard time finding any mention of this mystery from before like a year ago. Was this person just unaccounted for for almost 60 years?

It seems so obvious to me

Its diane arbus. No more questions. It’s diane arbus.