Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture

La presentación y arreglo de las historias y fotografías son las que atraen a la lectura y disfrute del libro. Excelentes fotos y no es por esto y mas que se le considere un icono en este terreno. Recomendable.

Such a legend in the photography world and this book exhibits some of his best, a great book!

This book is great for those ones interested in music history and photography. A great set of Marshall's most emblematic photos are included.

If you were there, if you're into classic rock... what's not to love??

I had seen plenty of Jim Marshall's music photography even before I had the first clue who he was. First were his many iconic images, like Johnny Cash flipping the bird for the warden at San Quentin State Prison, Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey Pop, Bob Dylan rolling a tire down a cobbled Greenwich Village street, and Janis Joplin with her bottle of Southern Comfort, all of which I absorbed through pop cultural osmosis, without even trying.Later came the covers of many beloved records in my own collection, like the Allman Brothers laughing and leaning on their stenciled flight cases, for At Fillmore East. Or the trippy shot, taken high above the stage, for the original Woodstock triple LP. An achingly gorgeous photo of Jimi in blue, from Hendrix In The West. Clapton, Baker and Bruce standing in front of a paisley-covered wall, on the back cover of Best of Cream. The Grateful Dead performing in the middle of Haight Street, used as the inside gatefold image for their Live/Dead album. And Jerry Garcia proffering a large snifter of brandy, on the cover of Farewell To Winterland, a particularly excellent triple vinyl Dead bootleg.But Jim Marshall was so much more than a great chronicler of some of my favorite musicians. Covering his entire career from 1959 through his death in 2010 and taking a deep dive into his archive of over 1,000,000 frames, this book makes the case for Marshall as one of the great photographers of the 20th century.The images just keep coming. The North Beach beatnik scene in his native San Francisco. Stunningly intimate portraits of jazz greats like Coltrane, Davis and Monk. Definitive shots from early folk, jazz and rock festivals. The very young Woody Allen, Dick Gregory and Carol Channing. Ogden Nash and William Saroyan. Stunning early-sixties street photography. Poverty in Appalachia. The civil rights movement, including the Mississippi Summer of 1964. Marshall's photo of Mrs. Fannie Lee Chaney, at the moment she learned her son James had been murdered at the hands of the Klan and the local police, is simply unforgettable.And that's just scraping the surface. The breadth and depth of this book are impressive. The packaging is first class, from a clever slipcase that mimics a 35 mm camera, to the impeccable print quality that makes the photos pop. The accompanying texts are excellent. Lead author Amelia Davis was Marshall's personal assistant for the last 13 years of his life, and Marshall left his entire estate to her. She paints a loving yet unsparingly honest portrait of Marshall, who was a complicated personality to say the least. The essays by Michelle Margetts, the last of Marshall's wives and lovers still alive, are similarly warm, clear eyed and illuminating of both the man and the work. Meg Schiffler, chief curator of the San Francisco Art Commission Galleries, illuminates Marshall's early career in San Francisco and New York and positions him within the larger cultural and political movements of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Marshall's friend, the author and music critic Joel Selvin, describes Jim's professional ascent as a participant-observer alongside and within the San Francisco psychedelic music scene, and his subsequent descent into addiction, gun violence and general insanity. And Karen Grigsby Bates writes movingly of Jim's largely unknown work in Appalachia and the Deep South.To summarize: come for the gorgeously reproduced, era-defining photography and stay for the texts. Between them you have an amazingly compelling and enjoyable overview of one of the great photographers of the twentieth century.