Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74

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Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74


By BEN SISARIO
Published: March 24, 2010

Jim Marshall, a photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash and others in the 1960s and ’70s helped define their subjects as well as rock ’n’ roll photography itself, died overnight on Tuesday in a hotel in New York. He was 74.

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In crisp photographs, shot mostly in black and white and with a stable of trusty Leica rangefinders, Mr. Marshall captured pop stars in their full onstage glory, as well as in unguarded offstage scenes that humanized them as approachable or vulnerable.

Among his most famous pictures are Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967, which established Hendrix’s early reputation as a wild man; Cash angrily gesturing with his middle finger while at the San Quentin State Prison in 1969; a boyish Bob Dylan following a stray tire down a New York street in 1963; and Janis Joplin clutching a bottle of Southern Comfort backstage in 1968.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25marshall.html?hpw