Instamatic Karma is a book by May Pang, John and Yoko’s former personal assistant and John’s lover. This will again explains if not finally clarify that the supposedly ‘Lost Weekend’ where John Lennon was depressed, isolated and out of control was in fact a happy and productive time.

The books contains photos take during his stay with May Pang from the summer of 1973 to early 1975, when he reconciled with his second wife, Yoko Ono.

Lennon himself admitted those things during the interviews when he released the “Double Fantasy” album. And lurid, oft-repeated tales of a drunken John Lennon’s being evicted from the Troubadour, a nightclub in Los Angeles, seemed to support that image.

But May Pang says the opposite. Now 57, the “Lost Weekend” was a remarkably productive time, during which Lennon completed three albums — “Mind Games,” “Walls and Bridges” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll”. During this time also he produced albums for Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson, and recorded with David Bowie, Elton John and Mick Jagger.

Personally, I love reading about John Lennon. It pleases me to know that even though he’s not with us anymore, people are still interested and are still looking for more information about him. This new book is another example of it.

Her new book, “Instamatic Karma” (St. Martin’s Press), is a 140-page collection of casual photos that Pang took during her time with Lennon. Apart from a handful included in “Loving John” — cropped and in black and white, but mostly printed in full and rich color here — she has kept them in a shoe box in her closet, occasionally pulling them out to show friends.

“I began to think about publishing them just in the last couple of years,” Pang said on Monday at her publisher’s office in the Flatiron Building. “A friend of mine kept saying, ‘You tell all these stories about John, and when you do, you say, “Wait a minute, I have a photo to go along with that!” How come we never see these photos in a book?’ So, I thought maybe it’s time to put them out. It would let people see John in that world, through my eyes. And it would get rid of that whole ‘Lost Weekend’ thing, where everyone says he was always down and looked terrible. I don’t think these photos appear that way.”