Fans of the late artist can now shoot with a camera that pays tribute to his artistry and era.
The late photographer Jim Marshall was a true iconoclast with a keen eye, a man who didn’t suffer fools while chronicling the ego-filled world of rock and roll and jazz. Now, fabled German camera manufacturer Leica is paying tribute to his legacy with the Leica M Monochrom Limited Edition Jim Marshall Set.
Priced at $12,950 and limited to 50 examples, the set includes a custom brass-plated M Monochrom camera, a Jim Marshall estate print of pianist Thelonious Monk, and a special estate-embossed copy of Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival featuring many previously unseen images. Although Leica has offered more than a half-dozen special edition M cameras over the years, this is the first commemorating a celebrated photographer.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Leica Camera Celebrates Renowned Photographer Jim Marshall with Limited Edition Camera
New Leica M Monochrom “Jim Marshall Set” and Gallery Exhibit Featuring Photographs from Marshall’s Unparalleled Jazz Archive to Debut this Month
June 1, 2017 – Leica Camera introduces a limited edition Leica M Monochrom set in homage to Jim Marshall, the first and only photographer to be honored with Grammy’s Trustee Award. There will be only 50 “Jim Marshall Sets” worldwide, which include the new brass plated Leica M Monochrom with a special “Laiton” finish and an inscription of Jim Marshall’s autograph, as well as a Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens, a Jim Marshall Limited Edition Estate print of “Thelonious Monk at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1964” and a special, numbered edition and estate embossed copy of the book Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival. To celebrate the launch of the “Jim Marshall Set”, the Leica Gallery LA will exhibit a selection of prints from Jim Marshall’s Jazz Festival series, chronicling the jazz festivals at Newport and Monterey during the 1960s.
During the extraordinary rise of popular culture and counterculture in the 1960s, Marshall became a staple of the music industry, capturing photos of icons including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Brian Jones, Johnny Cash, and many more. Marshall lived life alongside his subjects and never betrayed their trust, which granted him second-to-none access. He immersed himself in that world more than any other photographer and, in doing so, emerged as an icon for a new generation of music, art and photography.
LIMITED EDITION “JIM MARSHALL SET”
Over the course of his life, Marshall acquired 20 different Leica M bodies, with Leicavit winders modified to fit, alongside over 30 Leica lenses. Every iconic photograph Marshall took was captured with his Leica camera. The Jim Marshall Estate and Leica Camera are proud to offer a limited edition set of 50 units of the Leica M Monochrom “Jim Marshall Set” with a Leica Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH. to celebrate Marshall’s legacy and love for his Leica cameras and lenses.
The Jim Marshall autographed Leica M Monochrom and Leica Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH. are both made of brass with a special “Laiton” finish, which provides a unique matte quality and a one-of-a-kind appearance for each set. Additionally, the lens, while modern in its optical design, has the classic knurled focus ring and round lens hood reminiscent of the 1960s. The set also includes a Jim Marshall Limited Edition Estate print of “Thelonious Monk at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1964” and a special, numbered edition and estate embossed copy of the book Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival published by Reel Art Press.
JAZZ FESTIVAL EXHIBIT AT LEICA GALLERY LOS ANGELES
In addition to the limited edition camera and lens, Leica Camera will honor Marshall’s legacy with a featured exhibit at the Leica Gallery Los Angeles, titled Jazz Festival, which will showcase some of Marshall’s inimitable images of jazz icons like Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Thelonious Monk.
Though widely celebrated for his rock and roll photography, what has remained largely unrecognized and underappreciated is his incredible jazz archive. These photos were taken in the jazz clubs he loved and frequented throughout his life, even capturing the Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals in the 1960s. These extraordinary images reflect Marshall’s unique talent and lifelong desire to “capture the perfect moment.”
The exhibit photographs are all from the book Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival, published by Reel Art Press, as well as historic artifacts from his life, including his groundbreaking Grammy award. Marshall holds the distinction of being the first and only photographer to be presented with the Recording Academy's Trustee Award, an honorary Grammy presented to individuals for nonperformance contributions to the music industry. The award was bestowed posthumously on the Jim Marshall Estate in 2014 in recognition of Marshall's unprecedented chronicling of music history from the 1950s through the early 2000s.
Jazz Festival will debut at the Leica Gallery Los Angeles on June 15th with a guest lecture and book signing with Amelia Davis, Marshall’s assistant for 13 years and now the sole owner and operator of Marshall’s archive of photography, from 5-6pm followed by an opening reception from 6-8pm. The exhibit will be open to public viewing through July 31st.
For more information on the exhibit, please visit www.leicagallerylosangeles.com. For more information on prints and the Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival book, please visit www.jimmarshalljazz.com.
About The Leica Gallery Los Angeles
Opened in 2013, The Leica Gallery Los Angeles was created to celebrate Leica photography. The Gallery provides unparalleled access to a rotation of curated exhibits, with imagery captured by classic and contemporary Leica photographers. Beyond the exhibition space, the Gallery also boasts a 1,200 square foot outdoor patio lounge. This serves as an additional location for Leica Akademie workshops, where professional and amateur photographers learn new techniques and get unique perspectives from featured artists. The Leica Gallery Los Angeles is open seven days a week at 8783 Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. For additional information, including lists of current and upcoming exhibitions, please visit www.leicagalleryla.com.
About Leica Camera
Passion for creating perfect pictures. Leica represents a union of craftsmanship, design and experience. It is a beautiful collision of art and engineering, and the future of form and functionality. Leica Camera is an internationally operating, premium-segment manufacturer of cameras and sport optics products. The legendary status of the Leica brand is founded on a long tradition of excellence in the supreme quality and performance of cameras and lenses, and the iconic images that artists and photojournalists everywhere captured with them. For more information about Leica visit www.leicacamerausa.com, or follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A LOOK AT THE SUMMER OF LOVE THROUGH THE EYES OF LEGENDARY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PHOTOGRAPHER JIM MARSHALL
The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries presents
Jim Marshall’s 1967
January 26 – June 17, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO, November 17, 2016 – What would it have been like to be an ambitious music photographer in San Francisco in 1967? Follow iconic photographer Jim Marshall as he captured some of the most important cultural and social events of the year that defined an everlasting identity for San Francisco. Marshall had an all-access pass to documenting history in the making. He stood next to Allen Ginsberg at the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park and was onstage with the Grateful Dead at their street concert in the Panhandle.
The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries is pleased to present Jim Marshall’s 1967. The exhibition at City Hall features a selection of 80 images from the thousands Marshall took in one fast-paced calendar year. Presented in chronological order, visitors can follow the artist as he shoots album covers for Jefferson Airplane, cavorts at home with Janis Joplin, shoots in the middle of a mass of Hell’s Angels and gets impossibly close onstage with Jimi Hendrix. Marshall was dearly loved and respected by musicians of all genres. He spent his life documenting jazz, folk and then rock and roll, and was living and working in San Francisco when California bands like Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield, The Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead were at the forefront of solidifying a cultural movement that had its heyday in 1967.
SFAC Galleries director and exhibition co-curator says, “We’re thrilled to be presenting, for the first time, an exhibition that focuses on the way that photographer Jim Marshall helped to define our cultural understanding of the Summer of Love, the San Francisco hippie movement, and the birth of psychedelic rock and roll. Previous exhibitions have used Marshall’s work to illustrate a story about history, whereas this show will highlight the artist, his unfathomable shooting schedule, and his unprecedented access to his subjects. Everyone will get to know Jim.”
Marshall’s career spanned over 50-years, and he created hundreds of legendary images that are fixed in the public consciousness. His photographs have appeared on the covers of over 500 albums and captured iconic and candid portraits of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and countless others. In a 2014 article in The New York Times, celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz called Marshall, “the rock ‘n’ roll photographer.”
Jim Marshall’s 1967 is part of a citywide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. The exhibition features a trove of photographs taken by Marshall that capture the vitality of the neighborhood and the multiple scenes and movements that called the Haight and San Francisco their home.
Jim Marshall’s work can also be seen in the Bay Area in two concurrent projects. American Civics is a collaboration between Shephard Fairey and Jim Marshall Photography, LLC. Fairey has interpreted Marshall’s portraits of such icons as Johnny Cash, Cesar Chavez, and Fannie Lee Chaney as human faces behind enduring social issues including voting rights, mass incarceration, and worker’s rights. These images are on two billboards in San Francisco, with more coming in 2017. http://americancivics.com/
Jim Marshall’s portraits also grace the windows of the SFUSD building, across the street from the SF Jazz Center on Franklin Street. The installation features photos of legendary jazz musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Count Basie, Anita O’Day, Charles Mingus, Vi Redd, and Nina Simone, among many others. The installation will be on view through May 2017. https://www.sfjazz.org/jimmarshall
The award winning book The Haight: Love, Rock And Revolution, by Joel Selvin, with photography by Jim Marshall, is another fantastic resource on the counterculture movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. https://www.amazon.com/Haight-Love-Rock-Revolution/dp/1608873633
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Jim Marshall’s 1967
Locations: San Francisco City Hall, Ground Floor Exhibition + North Light Court Banners
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public
Exhibition Dates: January 26 – June 17, 2017
Exhibition Locations: San Francisco City Hall, Ground Floor Exhibition + North Light Court Banners
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Exhibition Dates: January 26 - June 17, 2017
The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries presents
Jim Marshall's 1967
What would it have been like to be an ambitious music photographer in San Francisco in 1967? Follow iconic photographer Jim Marshall as he captured some of the most important cultural and social events of the year that defined an everlasting identity for San Francisco. Marshall had an all-access pass to documenting history in the making. He stood next to Allen Ginsberg at the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park and was onstage with the Grateful Dead at their street concert in the Panhandle.
The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries is pleased to present Jim Marshall’s 1967. The exhibition at City Hall features a selection of 80 images from the thousands Marshall took in one fast-paced calendar year. Presented in chronological order, visitors can follow the artist as he shoots album covers for Jefferson Airplane, cavorts at home with Janis Joplin, shoots in the middle of a mass of Hell’s Angels and gets impossibly close onstage with Jimi Hendrix. Marshall was dearly loved and respected by musicians of all genres. He spent his life documenting jazz, folk and then rock and roll, and was living and working in San Francisco when California bands like Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield, The Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead were at the forefront of solidifying a cultural movement that had its heyday in 1967.
SFAC Galleries Director and exhibition co-curator says, “We’re thrilled to be presenting, for the first time, an exhibition that focuses on the way that photographer Jim Marshall helped to define our cultural understanding of the Summer of Love, the San Francisco hippie movement, and the birth of psychedelic rock and roll. Previous exhibitions have used Marshall’s work to illustrate a story about history, whereas this show will highlight the artist, his unfathomable shooting schedule, and his unprecedented access to his subjects. Everyone will get to know Jim.”
Marshall’s career spanned over 50 years and he created hundreds of legendary images that are fixed onto the public consciousness. His photographs have appeared on the covers of over 500 albums and captured iconic and candid portraits of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and countless others. In a 2014 article in The New York Times, celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz called Marshall, “the rock ‘n’ roll photographer.”
Jim Marshall’s 1967 is part of a citywide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. The exhibition features a trove of photographs taken by Marshall that capture the vitality of the neighborhood and the multiple scenes and movements that called the Haight and San Francisco their home.
Jim Marshall's work can also be seen in the Bay Area in two concurrent projects. American Civics is a collaboration between Shephard Fairey and Jim Marshall Photography, LLC. Fairey has interpreted Marshall's portraits of icons such as Johnny Cash, Cesar Chavez and Fannie Lee Chaney, as human faces behind enduring social issues such as voting rights, mass incarceration, and worker's rights. These images are on two billboards in San Francisco, with more coming in 2017. http://americancivics.com/
Jim Marshall's portraits also grace the windows of the SFUSD building across the street from the SF Jazz Center on Franklin Street. The installation features photos of legendary jazz musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Count Basie, Anita O'Day, Charles Mingus, Vi Redd, and Nina Simone, among many others. The installation will be on view through May 2017. https://www.sfjazz.org/jimmarshall
The award winning book, The Haight: Love, Rock And Revolution, by Joel Selvin with photography by Jim Marshall is another fantastic resource on the counter culture movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. https://www.amazon.com/Haight-Love-Rock-Revolution/dp/1608873633
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Jim Marshall’s 1967
Locations: San Francisco City Hall, Ground Floor Exhibition + North Light Court Banners
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public
Exhibition Dates: January 26 – June 17, 2017
Jim Marshall’s 1967 was made possible through a partnership with the estate of Jim Marshall/Jim Marshall Photography, LLC.
Before he was a famous rock photographer, Jim Marshall photographed jazz, covering the festivals in Newport, Rhode Island and Monterey, California in the 1960s and photographing the biggest stars along with their deeply hip audience. Jazz Festival: Jim Marshall, published recently by Reel Art Press in collaboration with the Jim Marshall Archive, collects some 600 of Marshall’s black and white images made between 1960 and 1966, most of them previously unpublished. At the Newport Jazz Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival, Marshall recorded the icons of jazz: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Wes Montgomery, Ben Webster, Nina Simone, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and others.
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