The Guardian: Jazz was the catalyst for change': Jim Marshall’s images of 60s festivals
by Sean O'Hagan
“Jim was a guy you either loved or hated, there was no in-between,” says Amelia Davis, Jim Marshall’s erstwhile assistant and now archivist. “If he loved you, he would lie down in front of a truck for you. If he hated you, he would happily drive the truck over you.”
British Journal of Photography: Jim Marshall’s photos of 60s jazz festivals published in new photobook Jim Marshall’s photos of 60s jazz festivals published in new photobook
Written by Jacob Brookman
Jim Marshall’s photos of 60s jazz festivals capture the many greats of the ‘first uniquely American art form’.
A new release celebrates the work of Grammy-award winning ‘father of music photography’, Jim Marshall as he documented American jazz festivals during the 1960s. Featuring icons such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone, the collection includes a variety of previously unseen images in a dynamic exploration of these revolutionary and unique musical happenings.
BBC Arts: Black and white and heard all over: How Jim Marshall shot the jazz festivals of the 1960s.
Jazz Festival: Jim Marshall is a lavish new book celebrating the legendary rock photographer's early work at the Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals of the 1960s. Some 600 black-and-white images, most previously unseen, capture not only the musical icons of the time, but the freedom, excitement and intimacy of the events, whose integrated crowds led the way for the civil rights movement. ALLAN CAMPBELL introduces a selection of Marshall's best shots.
Hoodline.com: Jazzy Jim Marshall Photo Installation
by Rose Garrett
A new public photography installation has gone up in the windows of the long-vacant San Francisco Unified School District building at Fell & Franklin.
Installed by neighboring SFJAZZ and curated by SFJAZZ photographer laureate Jim Goldberg, the new installation displays works by celebrated photographer Jim Marshall, who made his name documenting musicians of the '60s and '70s.
We hold a special place in our hearts for good people. For good car people, that place is larger and ever more dear.
If you need proof, take a look at the story we did on Terry Chandler, a two-car NHRA team sponsor, whose financial windfall benefits Make-a-Wish and Infinite Heroes with 3,000-hp billboards.
At Autoweek, we occasionally take up important causes to us that help our own -- Car Guys. When you learn about Jim Marshall, you might want to dig into your pockets. We know we will.
This gorgeous collection of photographs (most of them black and white), by one of the pioneers of rock photography, documents the epicenter of the countercultural revolution: San Francisco's Haight District in the mid- to late-1960s.
Daily Beast: "The Haight" named to Top 22 Art & Photography books of 2014.
Books by artists and about artists, books that are works of art—it was a great year for the coffee table book, from Goya to Dalí, from tattoos to World War I in color.
