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By: One Hell of An Eye » Jim Marshall, Janis Joplin and Me

One Hell of An Eye » Jim Marshall, Janis Joplin and Me — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:14:55 +0000

[...] –Michelle Dunn Marsh, Senior Editor/Chronicle Books - http://www.chroniclebooks.com/blog/?p=4656 [...]

By: Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:40:51 +0000

Wow, I found out about Jim passing just now while on the Chronicle website. I met Jim years ago while I was working as a Photographers Rep for Kodak in New York. Of course we drank scotch together on our first encounter…and every subsequent one too. I was already photographing celebrity guitars while at the same time working for Kodak and Jim graciously tried to help me with Bob Dylan. What a sweet and generous man. When he found out that Timothy White had given me two signed prints of The Boss playing his guitar, he insisted on giving me a signed print of his famous shot of Mick Jagger drinking Jack Daniels out of the bottle in his dressing room. What a treasure I have, first in having the honor of knowing Jim, second for the honor of being on the receiving end of his generosity and third for the image he gave me that I walk past every day in rememberence forever…Bottoms Up JM! OMMMMMM

By: SFMILLVALLEYEE

SFMILLVALLEYEE — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:21:52 +0000

Does anyone know what brand of single malt that Jim drank? In the 2x I met him he’d offered it up to me each time and I partook. RIP Jim.

By: Jeff Kausch

Jeff Kausch — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:39:19 +0000

Thanks Michelle

http://blog.apasf.com/?p=900

Jim was an APA SF Executive Board Member, was a close friend of many APA members, and was a central character in the Bay Area Photo Community for decades, so we are creating a special section on the Advertising Photographers of America, San Francisco blog to help honor him. Photographer Jock McDonald and Agent Norman Maslov are just two of Jim’s friends who have already contributed.

If you have any stories, or photos of Jim, or relevant links to share, please email them to info@apasf.com

Thanks

By: Remembering Jim Marshall « APA San Francisco

Remembering Jim Marshall « APA San Francisco — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:33:40 +0000

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By: Michelle Dunn Marsh

Michelle Dunn Marsh — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:08:58 +0000

Thank you to Jesse Diamond for usage of the photo he took of Jim and me at Cafe Loup in October, 2009

By: Joel Selvin

Joel Selvin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:27:35 +0000

Marshall’s book “Proof” says so much. He never took a bad shot. Everything is composed, focused, saying something. Some were better than others. To pull back the curtain and show the world every shutter-click is to truly stand naked as a photographer and, as I said in the introduction, something that Richard Avedon would never do. Jim was fearless as an artist and a human being. He loved with a breath-taking fierceness. When Jim Marshall was your friend, you had a friend for life. I will always miss him.

By: Alan Rapp

Alan Rapp — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:44:06 +0000

As Michelle and Nion intimate here, there was no neutral approach or halfway gestures with Jim Marshall. You had to go all in, and I feel lucky to have been able to do so.

I was also extremely naïve when I told my superiors that I thought I could work with Jim as his editor. They may not have shared their level of skepticism with me directly, and I in turn really had no idea what I was about to get into.

What I got into was watching a truly great photographer work with his most iconic images in a way that allowed the world to see them anew late in his career. His approach always avoided cliché, especially amazing with such subjects as the outsized musicians from a frequently lampooned counterculture era.

Discussions could get heated, and I came to realize that if you were not threatened with bodily harm or a litigation by Jim, you weren’t doing your job. He would deploy such behavior almost with a wink, as central to his persona as his ever-within-reach Leica. It meant he trusted you, that he had effort on the table that required due regard.

When we sequenced his jazz photos we cleared the conference table to spread out his prints. I quickly realized I was pretty much superfluous; he knew exactly what he was doing. He didn’t intellectualize anything—he just moved around the table linking photos intuitively and rationally. He told stories about everyone in the photographs, people who to me were distant legends, but to him were often buddies.

I thank you Jim for sharing your visual genius with me and my colleagues. I am proud to have helped remind the world what a great photographer you were, and introduce that work to younger generations. Hope you’ll have one on me.

By: Nion McEvoy

Nion McEvoy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:15:11 +0000

I second my colleague Michelle Dunn Marsh’s feelings about the charming, irascible, roguish and loving Jim Marshall. Not only did he give us iconic images of some of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century–Hendrix, Miles, Coltrane, the Beatles, Jim Morrison, Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin–but he was a wonderful friend. His humanity, and his ability to see and show us the essential humanity in others, whether it was vulnerable, cocky, tragic or tough, is what made him the exceptional photographer he was. I was his editor for “Monterey Pop,” and we spoke often in the years that followed. It was great to spend time with him at the opening of the “Taking Aim” show at the Experience Music Project in Seattle recently. My last memory of him is of him in the bar at the Sorrento, kissing the attractive young photographer who had covered the opening, beaming about the heartfelt acclaim he was receiving and the books that would soon be published. Just as it should have been.