Astonishing photos in Jim Marshall's book
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/18/DD2B1B5AKP.DTL
Joel Selvin
Friday, December 18, 2009
Bay Area photographer Jim Marshall, whose unparalleled portfolio and
uncanny eye made him the Cartier-Bresson of music photographers, has
published a number of books, but he has never featured so
extravagantly his brilliant color photographs as in his latest book,
"Trust" (Omnibus Press $34,95). The captions are littered with his
grumpy complaints about press agents and road managers, but every
shot is astonishing.
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash share a private laugh, leaning over their
guitars on a TV soundstage. An impossibly young, improbably beautiful
22 year-old Joan Baez lets a beatific smile flicker across her lips
at the Newport Folk Festival. John Coltrane and Miles Davis are in
full flight at San Francisco nightclubs in the early '60s.
Marshall's work spans the history of American music in the 20th
century - from tribal elders such as Bill Monroe and Mother Maybelle
Carter to baby pictures of kids like Carlos Santana, Janis Joplin and
Leonard Cohen. His concert photography captures birds in flight and
his candid portraits are so unflinchingly intimate, catching moments
so private and unguarded, they often look like no one else was in the
room with the subject when the photo was taken.
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