The Sullivan show performance did not make Mr. Grossman a Beatles fan, but when he covered the group again, during its American tour that summer, he became friendly with George Harrison.

“After that,” Mr. Grossman said over lunch recently, “anytime I went to London, I’d check into my hotel, call their office to find out George’s phone number du jour — they had to change them, because the fans would find them out — and I’d arrange to spend a day with them. Often, I was in Europe to shoot something else, and I didn’t have a Beatles-related assignment.”

Between 1964 and 1968, Mr. Grossman took more than 7,000 photos of the Beatles, though only a few dozen — whatever editors needed for the articles at hand — were published at the time. The best-known is a formal portrait from February 1967, showing the band members before a blue backdrop, sporting mustaches (new at the time) and flowery clothes. Shot for Life magazine, it has become a ubiquitous poster. But Mr. Grossman rarely printed the unused pictures from his sessions and never thought to exploit them.

Probably for that reason, Mr. Grossman is rarely listed among the photographers most closely associated with the Beatles: a group that includes Astrid Kirchherr and Jürgen Vollmer, known for their gritty shots of the leather-clad Beatles during their early years in Hamburg; Dezo Hoffmann and Robert Freeman, who photographed them frequently in the early middle years of their career; and Robert Whitaker, who staged avant-garde shoots, including one that produced the quickly withdrawn “Butcher” cover (which showed the group in butcher smocks, draped in pieces of meat and decapitated baby dolls) for the “Yesterday and Today” LP.

“Places I Remember” may help change that. A boxed 528-page, silver-edged brick of a volume that weighs 15 pounds, includes about 1,000 photographs and costs $495 (or $795 for one of the first 250 copies, signed by Mr. Grossman, in an edition of 1,200), it is Mr. Grossman’s second book. In 2008 Curvebender published “Kaleidoscope Eyes,” another $495 limited edition, which documents in fine detail (and about 220 frames) an evening recording session for “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.”