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The Haight: Revised and Expanded: Love, Rock, and Revolution
Featuring striking images of twentieth-century icons, such as Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Grace Slick, and others, The Haight is an indispensable gallery of legendary photographer Jim Marshall’s iconic sixties-era San Francisco photography—now available in a smaller, easy-to-carry size perfect for students, tourists, and other readers on-the-go.
The counterculture movement of the 1960s is one of the most continually fascinating and endlessly examined milestones of the twentieth century. The footprint of that movement reverberates strongly today in music, fashion, literature, art, and society as a whole. 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.
Bold and beautifully crafted, The Haight captures the full scope and nuance of Marshall’s San Francisco photography and offers fresh insight into the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, and beyond.
The counterculture movement of the 1960s is one of the most continually fascinating and endlessly examined milestones of the twentieth century. The footprint of that movement reverberates strongly today in music, fashion, literature, art, and society as a whole. 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.
Bold and beautifully crafted, The Haight captures the full scope and nuance of Marshall’s San Francisco photography and offers fresh insight into the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, and beyond.
312 pages, Paperback
Published June 22, 2021
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36 books89 followersSan Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin started covering rock shows for the paper shortly after the end of the Civil War. His writing has appeared in a surprising number of other publications that you would think should have known better.
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April 26, 2016
What an absolutely fantastic book chronicling a place and time that will never come again. The Haight was such an integral part of the sixties and the hippie movement, music and freedom, or at least that was how it was in the beginning. The starts of some of my favorite bands, learned so much. Jefferson Airplane a great favorite of mine but never knew Grace Slick had been a model. The photographs are amazing, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, street scenes, sidewalk art all vividly displayed by this wonderful photographer who would see it all. Of course it ended, too many drugs, too many people and it crashed in on itself and imploded. Brilliant book of remembrances good and bad. Stunning.
April 15, 2016
I don't understand why more people on GR haven't read this book. IT'S AMAZING!!!!
It combines the spectacular photography of Jim Marshall with small articles on rock music and hippie culture. Covering everything from Jimi Hendrix to Jim Morrison to Janis Joplin to Grace Slick to Jefferson Airplane to the Grateful Dead to the Beatles to Eric Clapton to The Who to Hell's Angels.
If you want to see some AMAZING photography from 1966, 1967 and 1968, this is the book for you.
I recommend it to EVERYONE. Either you've lived through the '60s and want to remember it fondly, or you are interested in the era, this book has something for everyone.
Janis Joplin really sets me on fire in this book. Every picture of her where she's smiling - and she smiles A LOT - melts my heart. HER FACE. Who can even deal with that face? She's such a heartbreaker.
1968
"This is always how I think of Janis," my friend says.
"How's that?"
"Slightly drunk," she says affectionately.
THAT SMILE. *Carmen has a heart attack*
The book has wonderful pictures like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix together, which I can't find on the Internet.
But here's her with Grace Slick:
^^ Look at her smile in these two above pictures with Slick and tell me you're not affected.
R.I.P. Janis Joplin.
The Grateful Dead, 1967
Musicians aren't the only thing covered in this book. Vietnam War protests and hippie culture were also featured.
Don't Say Anything On This Phone That You Wouldn't Say To A Cop
1967
Eric Clapton 1967
Jim Morrison 1968
There are great pictures from Woodstock, be-ins, protests, and dances here.
Tl;dr - I can't begin to touch all the photographs featured in this fantastic book. Many were never published, only discovered in Marshall's archives. If you want a trip back to 1966-1968 for any reason, this book is an excellent way to go. Wonderful, I can't recommend it highly enough.
It combines the spectacular photography of Jim Marshall with small articles on rock music and hippie culture. Covering everything from Jimi Hendrix to Jim Morrison to Janis Joplin to Grace Slick to Jefferson Airplane to the Grateful Dead to the Beatles to Eric Clapton to The Who to Hell's Angels.
If you want to see some AMAZING photography from 1966, 1967 and 1968, this is the book for you.
I recommend it to EVERYONE. Either you've lived through the '60s and want to remember it fondly, or you are interested in the era, this book has something for everyone.
Janis Joplin really sets me on fire in this book. Every picture of her where she's smiling - and she smiles A LOT - melts my heart. HER FACE. Who can even deal with that face? She's such a heartbreaker.
1968
"This is always how I think of Janis," my friend says.
"How's that?"
"Slightly drunk," she says affectionately.
THAT SMILE. *Carmen has a heart attack*
The book has wonderful pictures like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix together, which I can't find on the Internet.
But here's her with Grace Slick:
^^ Look at her smile in these two above pictures with Slick and tell me you're not affected.
R.I.P. Janis Joplin.
The Grateful Dead, 1967
Musicians aren't the only thing covered in this book. Vietnam War protests and hippie culture were also featured.
Don't Say Anything On This Phone That You Wouldn't Say To A Cop
1967
Eric Clapton 1967
Jim Morrison 1968
There are great pictures from Woodstock, be-ins, protests, and dances here.
Tl;dr - I can't begin to touch all the photographs featured in this fantastic book. Many were never published, only discovered in Marshall's archives. If you want a trip back to 1966-1968 for any reason, this book is an excellent way to go. Wonderful, I can't recommend it highly enough.
September 29, 2024
"Everyday promised fresh adventure. It wasn't simply that people were looking different, dressing different, even acting different. It wasn't only the music in the air. There was some sunny optimism blooming inside these people, a promise of freedom, a whiff of a future far removed from a cold, uncaring past.
November 5, 2014
Initially this book would seem to be a dream collaboration between writer Joel Selvin and the late photographer Jim Marshall. The focus is on Marshall's brilliant photographs which chronicled the San Francisco music and street scene of the mid-late '60s in a way that no one else did. The pictures are brilliant. If you weren't around in those days they will give you the full flavor of what that scene was like. If you were around they will bring back good, and some not so good, memories of the time. The only problem I had was with the writing. There were several factual and grammatical errors. I was reading a pdf of the book that was sent to me by a publicist and it is entirely possible that it was an uncorrected galley, although I was never told that, and the file was marked "final." I am supposed to get a hard copy and if those mistakes are corrected I will give this book another star.
January 13, 2016
The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution: The Photography of Jim Marshall by Joel Selvin and Jim Marshall (Insight Editions 2014) (979.461). Rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall was in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco throughout the early 60's and through "the Summer of Love." He was right there in the middle of it all. The focus of this book is on the legendary San Francisco bands the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Charlatans, Quicksilver, and the Jefferson Airplane. This volume is a great big oversized edition and is just the right size for my own coffee table. Collectors will love this one! My rating: 7/10, finished 4/10/15.
December 4, 2019
If you haven't read Selvin's previous Summer of Love (quite a few years back now) and are fascinated by the hippie thing circa 1967, this might be five stars. It's built around photographs taken by Jim Marshall, easily the most important visual chronicler of the scene. The photos of the Beatles final concert, the street scene in the Haight and, my favorites, the stunning portraits of Grace Slick and Janis Joplin, are priceless.
Selvin, who was a journalist covering the Bay Area back in the day, provides a trustworthy accompanying text. I was hoping for at least a bit more that wasn't there in the previous book but that one's fallen into obscurity, so it's good to have a new version.
Selvin, who was a journalist covering the Bay Area back in the day, provides a trustworthy accompanying text. I was hoping for at least a bit more that wasn't there in the previous book but that one's fallen into obscurity, so it's good to have a new version.
January 2, 2024
I got this book about a year ago from a friend who works for the publisher. He also lived in SF in the 80's I think and is an official "deadhead" who still sees shows when he can (like Bob Weir, etc.)
The book has lots of photos, not much text, but interesting nonetheless. Some of the captions were small and hard to read, but otherwise I enjoyed the book and the history of the area. I live near SF and was familiar with many of the locations in the book, but my 21 year old was amazed that I had never visited the Haight. Maybe I'll take a "trip" down there, play some disc golf in Golden Gate park too!
The book has lots of photos, not much text, but interesting nonetheless. Some of the captions were small and hard to read, but otherwise I enjoyed the book and the history of the area. I live near SF and was familiar with many of the locations in the book, but my 21 year old was amazed that I had never visited the Haight. Maybe I'll take a "trip" down there, play some disc golf in Golden Gate park too!
August 30, 2025
An outstanding volume! The photos are truly exceptional, and the text really details the step-by-step unfolding of the hippie era in the Bay area. I was a child of the Sixties, and I've also read many accounts of those halcyon days, but Selvin provided a variety of fascinating pieces that I had not previously encountered. If you'd like to know how the events of that era segued from one to another, and get a real feeling for it, I highly recommend this book.
August 5, 2023
Decent photo collection
January 3, 2015
This book is pure perfection. These pages have something to offer everyone, whether your interest is music, history, sociology, photography, hippie culture, or all of these.
The photos are a mixture of black & white and color, with the majority being full-page. Many are candid shots, some are posed, and all of them capture one of the most fascinating periods of American history. We have many images of the musicians of the sixties. Many of these are offstage shots, giving us a glimpse into their personal lives. But perhaps even more interesting are the photos of the people on the streets. Some are tourists, some are just young residents hanging out. Jim Marshall managed to chronicle an era by expertly capturing the mood, the feel, and the look of the people making history.
The text is well-written, informative, entertaining, and the perfect accompaniment to Jim Marshall's photos.
I bought this book in hardcover, which I highly recommend. While I love my Kindle, I don't know that a digital copy would do this book justice. It's large and heavy, the pages thick. The images pop. It's a book that demands to be held, the pages touched, the ink smelled. This book deserves a place on a shelf or a coffee table, to be looked at, savored, and talked about.
The photos are a mixture of black & white and color, with the majority being full-page. Many are candid shots, some are posed, and all of them capture one of the most fascinating periods of American history. We have many images of the musicians of the sixties. Many of these are offstage shots, giving us a glimpse into their personal lives. But perhaps even more interesting are the photos of the people on the streets. Some are tourists, some are just young residents hanging out. Jim Marshall managed to chronicle an era by expertly capturing the mood, the feel, and the look of the people making history.
The text is well-written, informative, entertaining, and the perfect accompaniment to Jim Marshall's photos.
I bought this book in hardcover, which I highly recommend. While I love my Kindle, I don't know that a digital copy would do this book justice. It's large and heavy, the pages thick. The images pop. It's a book that demands to be held, the pages touched, the ink smelled. This book deserves a place on a shelf or a coffee table, to be looked at, savored, and talked about.
January 6, 2015
Incredible how this man got this intimate shots of musicians doing their thing on and off stage. the text is top notch too, not only delivering some company to the photographs but a story of rock'n'roll from a specific angle. From all the great shots, the Hendrix ones are sticking with me potentially the longest. What I like most is Marshalls' approach. A camera, a lense, no flash, no studio stuff but a very natural approach where the simple tech just became an extension of his sheer want to document that moment. the moment which he seemed to get almost instinctively more than many in this business.
February 10, 2015
There's a reason Jim Marshall is considered the "pioneer of rock-and-roll photography." His work transports you to a time when the Haight was coming into its own, fueled by a soundtrack of folk, rock, soul and psychedelia. This is an outstanding collection of Marshall classics, but there were also many shots I was seeing for the first time. Highly recommend for music lovers, especially fans of San Francisco's late-'60s scene.
January 4, 2015
This is a great book for those with interests in photography, music, or the 60s era. Marshall was granted incredible access to musicians on the rise and he captured them in both public and intimate moments to produce most of the iconic photographs of the Summer of Love. Selvin's text provides a great accompaniment to the photos, providing insights into both the photographer and the era.
November 21, 2014
My review, for the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/T...
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/T...
October 31, 2015
There is not a greater environmental portrait photographer in history than Jim Marshall. This collection is yet more proof of his genius.
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