From Blind magazine
By Bill Shapiro
The images of music star photographer Jim Marshall are published in a new book by Chronicle Books.
Jim Marshall not only shot some of the most iconic moments of the ’60s and ’70s music scene, he was the photographer who actually made them iconic: That picture of Jimi Hendrix kneeling before his flaming guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival? That was Marshall. Johnny Cash flipping the bird at San Quentin? He was looking straight into Marshall’s Leica. Jerry Garcia plopped on the ground next to a “Dead End” sign at Woodstock? Yep, Marshall.
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From the Daily Beast
By Elizabeth Hunt Brockway
It’s not uncommon for Jim Marshall photographs to be included in tributes of music legends and civil rights greats alike.
His portraits of rock n’ roll legends—like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones—throughout the 1960s and 70s launched his career and helped define both rock n’ roll photography and the way we remember the stars of the era. Marshall was able to capture musicians both in commanding onstage moments of performance (like his iconic photograph of Johnny Cash flipping off the camera during his performance at San Quentin), and in quiet and almost somber, private moments as well (just look to his equally famous photograph of Bob Dylan playing with a tire in a dirty Greenwich Village).
Containing over 200 photographs, more than 70 of which have never been published before, the new book, Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture, is a fitting tribute and retrospective of Marshall’s career. It was compiled by Amelia Davis, his longtime assistant.
Here, a selection of images from the book, showcasing Marshall’s unique ability to capture the humanity in superstars, as well of that in average anonymous Americans.
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New York magazine names "Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture" a top gift pick for 2019.
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From Publishers Weekly:
In this magnificent photo collection, Davis, who runs the Jim Marshall Photography estate, celebrates the work of photographer Jim Marshall (1936–2010). Marshall was best known for his shots of music legends such as John Coltrane and Otis Redding, and his photos of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival, but here Davis opens with Marshall’s noncelebrity images: a woman’s reflection in a bar, a circus clown on a cigarette break, and a blind man asking for donations to purchase a security dog. From there, Davis jumps into his famous photos from the Monterey Jazz Festival and Woodstock, as well as photos of Johnny Cash’s legendary performance at San Quentin, which yielded the well-known image of Cash viciously giving the finger to Marshall when he asked for “one for the warden.” Marshall’s reputation and conviviality, Davis posits, enabled him to snap candid shots of musicians at home, in the studio, and backstage. …
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Ahead of the official launch of "Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture" by Chronicle Books, the video trailer is a book trailer of the day in the trade publication Shelf Awareness.
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