Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74 – NYTimes.com

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Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74

Mr. Marshall was a photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and others in the 1960s and ’70s helped define their subjects as well as rock ’n’ roll photography itself.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25marshall.html?partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099

Annie Leibovitz once called him “the rock ’n’ roll photographer.”

With an imposing figure and gruff, forceful personality, Mr. Marshall was something of a rock star himself, and musicians respected him as much for his pictures as for his dedication to getting them. Yet he saw his work largely in photojournalistic terms, capturing a natural scene instead of staging an artificial one.

“When I’m photographing people, I don’t like to give any direction,” he wrote in the introduction to his 1997 retrospective book, “Not Fade Away.” “There are no hair people fussing around, no make-up artists. I’m like a reporter, only with a camera; I react to my subject in their environment, and, if it’s going well, I get so immersed in it that I become one with the camera.”