BBC – The music photographer trusted by the stars!

Jim Marshall on tour with The Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 When photographer Jim Marshall died, in 2010, he left behind more than a million pictures that captured the true face of music in the 1960s and 70s. From Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey to Johnny Cash playing Folsom Prison to The Beatles’ last concert, Marshall was on hand to not only record the moment but to capture it in such a way as to help define its place in history. A new film, Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall, captures the stories behind the images and the man himself, a complex character who fully immersed himself into the culture of the time. His pictures can be found on more than 500 album covers. In 1969, Marshall covered the three-day Woodstock festival for Newsweek magazine, shooting non-stop, capturing the artists on stage and the atmosphere off it. This image of Fantuzzi (right) dancing featured on the cover of the magazine. “I like to shoot something that is emotionally exciting and people that are visually exciting,” Marshall told radio journalist David Gans in 1978. “When the music is right, when the access is right and the light is good, I really get off on it. I’ll only photograph people I like. You couldn’t pay me enough to photograph someone I didn’t like or an event I didn’t want to go to.” Marshall’s archive is now managed by Amelia Davis, who worked with him for many years curating his huge body of work. Here are just a few pictures from his archive. A lunch counter in Sausalito, California, in 1962 Before rock and roll, Marshall snapped the streets around him in San Francisco, recording everyday scenes in bars and coffee shops, but by the early 60s, he was photographing in jazz clubs, capturing John Coltrane and others. Bob Dylan rolling a tyre, in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1963 Marshall called this 1963 shot of Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village “Dylan with Tire”. It was taken on Sunday morning as Dylan, his girlfriend Suze, fellow folk singer Dave van Ronk, and his wife, Terri, were heading to breakfast. In 1997, Marshall said: “Contrary to popular belief, this shot did not inspire the song Like a Rolling Stone. “No-one really knows where he was coming from but he’s one of the most brilliant songwriters of our...