Overview

Jim Marshall snapped some of the most iconic jazz and rock ’n’ roll images of all time. He documented the faces of the civil rights movement. Leica camera in hand, he had the power to look into the soul of an individual and to capture the mood of an entire generation. This book collects several hundred photographs from across his career: Intimate portraits, heady crowd scenes, and haunting street shots will transport the reader back to the 1960s and 1970s. A selection of proof sheets offer fascinating insight into his process. Quotes and in depth essays from his friends and contemporaries fill in Marshall’s story. Published to coincide with a new documentary about his life and work, and presented in a wow-worthy package complete with die-cut slipcase, this is the essential book about a photography legend.

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Few photographers have had a life and career as historic as Jim Marshall. His pictures not only capture some of the most influential artists of the 20th century but also established a new level of intimacy in the relationship between entertainers and the photojournalists documenting them. --Buzzfeed 'Amelia Davis, Marshall's longtime assistant and editor of Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture, has put together a stunning tribute to Marshall's vision of life during the twentieth century. She pairs Marshall's photographs with incredible essays that take us along for the ride, giving us a powerful portrait of the exquisite genius that is Marshall's singular legacy. --Feature Shoot Show Me the Picture combines penetrating essays on Marshall the artist and Marshall the man by a variety of writers to complement a wealth of compelling Marshall images, some familiar, others resoundingly fresh in their power and humanity. --American History Magazine A masterful compendium of the photographer's life.... Jim Marshall's photographs have become a visual diary of the rebellious spirit of rock and roll. --Huck Magazine Exquisite, vibey, joyful, and sometimes tear-inducing photos.... While many fans know of Jim Marshall from his brilliant photos of '60s and '70s rockers, he was far more than a rock photog, and this career-spanning anthology should surprise and delight readers with its expansive portraiture of jazz icons, political and civil rights events, coal miners, denizens of Times Square, and other subjects. --Guardians of Guitar In this new book, readers can tag along with legendary rock 'n' roll photographer Jim Marshall to some of the most incredible concerts of the '60s and '70s. Along with his documentation of enigmatic greats like The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, and Ray Charles, Marshall also captured participants in the various social movements and subcultures that changed the world, and readers get an intimate, unfiltered view of these influential political and cultural developments. --Paste Magazine In Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture, we get a full portrait of a master documentary photographer; a man who captured stunning images at the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement and took that same sense of perspective from the jazz festival and nightclub scenes of the early 1960s through that decade and into the next. --PopMatters You've surely seen some of Jim Marshall's iconic rock photographs, but the sheer breadth of his work is pure 'wow!' --Zoom Street A few books about Jim Marshall's work have come out since his death nearly a decade ago, but the newest, Show Me the Picture, is a revelation.... Significantly, the book includes Marshall's street photography and civil rights-era documentary work from the early '60s--often riveting pictures that show the 27-year-old Marshall's pinpoint eye for detail as well as his range as a shooter.... Show Me the Picture is not just a sparkling look back at the work of a legendary photographer, it's a reminder of the kind of relationship a photographer can have with a subject, and of the magic they can make together. --Blind Magazine

A masterful compendium of the photographer's life.... Jim Marshall's photographs have become a visual diary of the rebellious spirit of rock and roll. --Huck Magazine In this new book, readers can tag along with legendary rock 'n' roll photographer Jim Marshall to some of the most incredible concerts of the '60s and '70s. Along with his documentation of enigmatic greats like The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, and Ray Charles, Marshall also captured participants in the various social movements and subcultures that changed the world, and readers get an intimate, unfiltered view of these influential political and cultural developments. --Paste Magazine You've surely seen some of Jim Marshall's iconic rock photographs, but the sheer breadth of his work is pure 'wow!' --Zoom Street Exquisite, vibey, joyful, and sometimes tear-inducing photos.... While many fans know of Jim Marshall from his brilliant photos of '60s and '70s rockers, he was far more than a rock photog, and this career-spanning anthology should surprise and delight readers with its expansive portraiture of jazz icons, political and civil rights events, coal miners, denizens of Times Square, and other subjects. --Guardians of Guitar In Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture, we get a full portrait of a master documentary photographer; a man who captured stunning images at the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement and took that same sense of perspective from the jazz festival and nightclub scenes of the early 1960s through that decade and into the next. --PopMatters A few books about Jim Marshall's work have come out since his death nearly a decade ago, but the newest, Show Me the Picture, is a revelation.... Significantly, the book includes Marshall's street photography and civil rights-era documentary work from the early '60s--often riveting pictures that show the 27-year-old Marshall's pinpoint eye for detail as well as his range as a shooter.... Show Me the Picture is not just a sparkling look back at the work of a legendary photographer, it's a reminder of the kind of relationship a photographer can have with a subject, and of the magic they can make together. --Blind Magazine

Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture is not only an amazing celebration of Marshall's work collated by Amelia Davis, but also a warm, and sensitive insight into the man himself told in short essays by those closest to him. -- The Beat

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Amelia Davis, owner of Jim Marshall Photography LLC, was the longtime personal assistant to legendary photographer Jim Marshall. Upon his death in 2010, Marshall left his entire estate to Ms Davis to carry on his legacy. Since his passing, Amelia has edited five Jim Marshall monographs and curated yearly photographic exhibitions of Marshall’s work. Amelia, a San Francisco–based, award-winning photographer, has three books of her own: The First Look (about breast cancer survivors), My Story: A Photographic Essay On Life With Multiple Sclerosis, and Faces of Osteoporosis.

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