A new documentary film chronicles the captivating highs and catastrophic lows of American photographer Jim Marshall.
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A new documentary film chronicles the captivating highs and catastrophic lows of American photographer Jim Marshall.
Man outside a liquor store in Oakland, California, 1962 Black musicians still had to fight to perform in venues in non-black neighborhoods, even though the black and white locals of…
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When most people think of photographer Jim Marshall (1936-2010), scenes from rock and roll history come crashing to mind: Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire during the Monterey Pop Festival; Johnny Cash flipping the bird at San Quentin State Prison; Janis Joplin lounging like a vixen in a sparkly mini-dress with a bottle of Southern Comfort in hand; the Charlatans playing the Summer of Love concert in Golden Gate Park.
Legendary rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall, who shot iconic images of Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and many other musicians, will be honored posthumously this weekend at a special Grammy Awards ceremony.
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Marshall, who died in 2010 at the age of 74, will be given a Trustees Award at the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards ceremony on January 25. The academy’s 56th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, honoring musicians for the best recordings of the past year, will take place on January 26.
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Amelia Davis is now the manager of Marshall’s estate and has spent the past two years going though his massive archive. The decision to release new work, Davis said, came from her desire to share the pictures, which Marshall referred to as his “children,” that he had not released in his lifetime. “He was the hardest editor on himself,” said Davis. “Going through his work, you find out how incredible it was. I want to celebrate that and share that art of Jim with the world.”
During this period he got his famous photo of Joplin backstage, slouched on a couch with a bottle of Southern Comfort cradled in her hands.
“Some people said I shouldn’t have published that picture of her lying back, with the bottle in her hand, but I’ll defend it to the death,” he once said. “People said her legs looked too fat. But Janis said, ‘Hey, that’s a great shot because it’s how it is sometimes. Lousy.’”
I have fought hard to own all or most of my images that I have produced over the past 20 plus years. The older I get the more and more I grow to appreciate Marshall and what he stood for. This man fought hard for everything he had, and no way in Hell was he ever going to let anyone fuck with him or his pictures.
Link: Jim Marshall was a bad ass :: Mangin Photography Archive
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.
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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.”
By Ctein I’m feeling mildly discombobulated. I just found out an hour ago that Jim Marshall died in his sleep last night (Tuesday night) in his hotel room in New York City; he was there for another show opening and…
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Practically the first thing Jim told me was to make a print for myself of anything I printed for him and he’d sign it. For all I know, my collection of Jim Marshall prints is worth more than everything he paid me over the last decade. He could alternate between being ridiculously tightfisted and incredibly generous. Mess with his intellectual property rights and he would go for your throat, literally and legally. Lots of people tried to rip him off, sometimes people who should know better like major magazines and television networks, sometimes just people who thought they could get away with putting a photograph of his on a T-shirt. Jim made a lot of money off of the many people who tried to rip him off. But ask Jim for something, almost anything, and if he didn’t think you were out to rip him off, he’d say yes.
Jackanory Films presents a Jim Marshall show and tell from andrew hetherington on Vimeo.
I recorded his show and tell on my point and shoot and have reposted the video in its entirety below. If you havent seen it or heard Jim speak before its well worth a look see. The stories and indeed his life and the way he lead it are priceless.
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Marshall summed up his rapport with rock stars best when talking about Joplin: “You could just call her at home and be like, ‘We have to take some pictures,’ and she’d say, ‘OK! Come over!’ She trusted me and knew I had her best interests at heart. I only wanted to make her look good.”
Link: Jim Marshall, Legendary Rock Photographer, Passes Away at 74 : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
Jim Marshall died today. That name might not mean much to lots of folks, even photographic folks, but we are all the poorer for his passing. He was an iconic shooter of the rock and
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Has anyone ever shot a memorable picture of, for instance, Coldplay? From what I hear from a serious distance, this is a band, like many, who has left the term “control freak” in the rear view mirror. Absolute control of image, and images. I guess that’s understandable. It’s a business. Good music, to be sure. Sanitized, moderated imagery. Will we look in 20 years? Will that retouched, altered image hit a nerve?
Gallery owner David Fahey, who co-authored Not Fade Away with Marshall, says, “Jim had an intuitive way of getting to the heart and soul of his subjects. He was there at a special time for our generation. He recorded the best people and took the best pictures of them.”
Link: Rock and Roll Photographer Jim Marshall Has Died, Age 74
“Jim’s work is legendary,” he said. “As far as music photographers, he is the godfather.”
A photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians.
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Jim Marshall, a photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians, including Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop Festival and Johnny Cash at San Quentin prison, died on Tuesday night in a hotel in New York. He was 74.
