{"id":957,"date":"2010-03-26T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=957"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:03:47","slug":"the-god-of-music-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"The God of Music Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his Marshall Photo<\/a> site it says:
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\nJim Marshall
\nFebruary 3, 1936\u0097March 24, 2010<\/em>
\nWe regret to announce that Jim passed away earlier today in New York City\u0097details to follow.<\/p>\n

You can read a few more of those details in the New York Times<\/a> and Rolling Stone<\/a>, which shows a picture of him at\u00a0 Woodstock in 1969 with 4 cameras, at least three if not all of them Leicas.<\/p>\n

Born in Chicago (he was no relation to me)\u00a0 I admired both his pictures and his working methods and attitude, and wrote about him in 2005. Here’s an edited version of part of what I wrote then:<\/p>\n

His approach is simple, he always chooses to work with available light, the kind of photographer who carries a camera everywhere, with at least one Leica M4 around his neck even when he goes shopping. On assignment he works with at least two, one with a 28mm, the other a standard 50mm. He never changes lenses and if he needs more he carries more cameras. Most of his work is taken on Tri-X, nominally rated at 800ASA, although he works without a meter. The secret of his work is getting to know the subject, getting their trust and then getting his pictures.<\/p>\n

He took some of the greatest pictures of jazz musicians as well as the big names of rock and roll, and created a legend through his attitude and behaviour. To his friends he was “grossly unpredictable, fabulously silly, unbelievably opinionated, completely charming, and thoroughly maddening<\/em>” while others – in particular those who tried to cheat him – viewed him as a dangerous lunatic. To Annie Leibovitz he was “the <\/em><\/strong>rock and roll photographer<\/em>” and I can only say ‘Amen’ to that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NPR has an article with an audio appreciation<\/a> of him, as well as a set of some of his best images<\/a>.\u00a0 He got them by demanding “all access, no doors to be closed, no conditions<\/em>” and the people he photographed trusted him. It’s something no one else will ever be able to do, with the industry now hog-tied by lawyers and control freaks.<\/p>\n

Marshall was in New York to help organise the opening of a show at the Staley + Wise<\/em> gallery, Match Prints<\/a>, which pairs his work with pictures by Timothy White<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On his Marshall Photo site it says: Jim Marshall February 3, 1936\u0097March 24, 2010 We regret to announce that Jim passed away earlier today in New York City\u0097details to follow. You can read a few more of those details in the New York Times and Rolling Stone, which shows a picture of him at\u00a0 Woodstock … Continue reading The God of Music Photography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}