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Trust: Photographs of Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall started photographing musicians in the 1950s, moving to New York in the 1960s,where he hung out with jazz, blues and folk artists, gaining the trust that he cites as the reason he has been able to capture such candid and revealing images over the years. This celebration of Marshall's work collects the best of his photographs, which are mostly from the 1960s and 1970s and feature such legends as Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.
- GenresMusicPhotography
165 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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October 14, 2017
Features a long, weird essay liberally using the F word and bragging about his photo skills, the book then offers up a collection of jazz and rock musicians performing at various venues. Not a bad book but not a great one either. If you are a fan of 1960's era music you might enjoy this one. Otherwise, don't bother.
January 29, 2019
Lovely photos. I wish there was more to read about the situations/scenarios that he captions the pictures with. Very interesting tidbits kept me hanging.
October 7, 2009
A recurrent subtext of voyeurism runs through Trust: Photographs of Jim Marshall. The connotation isn’t seedy or even surreptitious, mind you, but rather it surfaces in how its subjects often seem oblivious to being so intently observed, let alone professionally photographed.
Marshall's own annotations accompany each photo, lending insight and endearing reminiscences. And while assorted portraits fill out the pages, the shots that capture artists in action or otherwise unaware are the ones that resonate most.
Such is how he caught artists at their most candid and in their own element, like Miles Davis looking especially pensive at the Isle of Wight, Mahalia Jackson gloriously wailing away at Carnegie Hall, and the Beatles chatting with journalist Ralph Gleason before taking the stage at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park for what would turn out to be the band’s live farewell.
In Trust: Photographs of Jim Marshall are images of mortals living up to — or contending with — their own epic reputations, their own demons, and their own brilliant myths. It's a fantastic collection
Marshall's own annotations accompany each photo, lending insight and endearing reminiscences. And while assorted portraits fill out the pages, the shots that capture artists in action or otherwise unaware are the ones that resonate most.
Such is how he caught artists at their most candid and in their own element, like Miles Davis looking especially pensive at the Isle of Wight, Mahalia Jackson gloriously wailing away at Carnegie Hall, and the Beatles chatting with journalist Ralph Gleason before taking the stage at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park for what would turn out to be the band’s live farewell.
In Trust: Photographs of Jim Marshall are images of mortals living up to — or contending with — their own epic reputations, their own demons, and their own brilliant myths. It's a fantastic collection
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