Selvin, Joel (Marshall, Jim)

The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution- The Photography of Jim Marshall

ISBN: 9781608873630
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "Widely regarded as the cradle of revolution, California’s Haight-Ashbury grew in the sixties from a small neighborhood in San Francisco to a worldwide phenomenon—a concept that extended far beyond the boundaries of the street intersection itself. Jim Marshall visually chronicled the neighborhood as perhaps no one else did. Renowned for his powerful portraits of some of the greatest musicians of the era, Marshall covered Haight-Ashbury with the same unique eye that allowed him to amass a staggering archive of music photography and Grammy recognition for his lifework. In this one-of-a-kind book, the full extent of Marshall’s Haight-Ashbury archive is stunningly displayed; powerful candids, intimate portraits, and images of live concerts, street scenes, crash pads, alleyways, and the Human Be-In are collected in the definitive photographic record of a watershed moment in time. Featuring hundreds of striking images of icons, ranging from Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bill Graham, Grace Slick, and the Jefferson Airplane to the Beatles, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and Bob Dylan, The Haight tells the complete and comprehensive story of the street, creative, cultural, and revolutionary aspects of the day. Written by best-selling San Francisco music journalist Joel Selvin, the story behind each and every one of these incomparable images is disclosed through an intimate and revealing narrative, lending the images a fascinating context and perspective" (Simon & Schuster, "About the Book"). Per the adeptly authored info-copy quoted above, preeminent San Francisco Music-&-Culture journalist, Joel Selvin here ambitiously tackles the photography of Jim Marshall (1936-2010). Born James Joseph Marshall in Chicago, Illinois to Assyrian parents, Marshall's family moved to San Francisco when he was only two years old. Marshall autonomously developed an interest in photography, and by high school began documenting the musicians and artists of San Francisco. Marshall was eventually hired by Atlantic Records, as well as Columbia Records to photograph the artists signed to their labels -- and to do so both on and off-stage. Marshall described the key to his method as essentially acting like/considering himself a photojournalist; it allowed him to move close (emotionally, physically, etc.) to the artists, and also to observe The Great Moment as it Unfolded from Afar. Such distinguished voices as Annie Leibovitz have called him "the Rock 'n Roll photographer," -- honoring him for the forcefulness of vocation he so breezily embodied. Like a true legend, the man literally died working. Although he lived in San Francisco at the end of his life, he was scheduled to give a lecture in NYC's SoHo district, and had flown and settled in -- ready as one could be to deliver such a lecture, when an undisclosed health complication arose. Perhaps the great City of New York (and the entity who governs its ghosts) was pissed Leibovitz hadn't died yet, and was in urgent need of a photographer to photograph the Great "Black and White Ball" in the Sky. We would be remiss not to tell you that the book also contains contributions by Donovan [Leitch], the great 60s songwriter; Guitar Swami, Jorma Kaukonen of the immortal Jefferson Airplane; and an afterward by John Poppy. A modern classic of photography, and a purchase almost impossible to regret. [ISBN: 978-1-60887-363-0]. Hardcover in illustrated boards: true First Edition, succeeded by the "Expanded, Revised Edition" of 2021. This copy, -- delectable from a collecting standpoint -- is completely sealed, within only the slightest exposure (by which we mean, slight opening in the publisher's protective wrapping) at back cover near center-middle. An extra handling fee will be added for shipping due to the weight of this item. As New. [Item #5529]

Price: $50.00