{"id":2448412,"date":"2019-09-06T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=877448"},"modified":"2019-09-06T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:52:26","slug":"see-13-rare-images-from-new-jim-marshall-book-show-me-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-13-rare-images-from-new-jim-marshall-book-show-me-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"See 13 Rare Images From New Jim Marshall Book, \u2018Show Me the Picture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time Amelia Davis met Jim Marshall<\/a> she had absolutely no idea who he was. It was 1998 and Davis, then studying photography at UC Davis, was at a friend\u2019s 30th birthday party packed with strangers. \u201cThere was this little man with a Leica camera around his neck who spotted me and shuffled over,\u201d she says. \u201cI said to him, \u2018I\u2019m a photographer. What do you do?\u2019 He goes, \u2018I\u2019m a photographer too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

[Find the Book Here<\/a>]<\/p>\n

After chatting for a few minutes about her in-progress book about breast cancer patients (\u201cA lot of my friends had breast cancer and Thanksgiving turkeys look better than their scars,\u201d said the typically blunt Marshall\u201d) he turned to her and posed a rather personal question. \u201cHe asked if I was gay,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cI said I was and he went, \u2018Oh! I\u2019m always attracted to gay women or married women.\u2019 I looked at him and went, \u2018That\u2019s your problem, not mine.\u2019 He laughed and laughed and said, \u2018I think we\u2019re going to be really good friends.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day they got coffee and he asked her to become his new assistant. It wasn\u2019t until they got to his apartment and she saw images on the wall like Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival at the Beatles taking the field at Candlestick Park for their final public performance as a band that she realized she was in the presence of a true legend. Not only is Marshall was one of the best rock photographers in history, but one of the true photography greats of the 20th century in any field. \u201cI was just so embarrassed,\u201d she says. \u201cI looked at him and said, \u2018I had no idea that was you.\u2019 He looked at me and smiled and said, \u2018That\u2019s why I like you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davis worked closely with Marshall over the next 13 years, helping him curate his enormous photography archive and deal with the chaos of his daily life. \u201cHe was still doing a lot of cocaine when I started working for him,\u201d she says. \u201cSo he was kind of erratic. He would binge and nobody could get ahold of him for days. I saw this incredible photographer that was trying to kill himself. He was just so destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall never had any children and when he suddenly died in 2010, he left his entire archive to Davis. \u201cHis photos really were his children and he really cared for them when he was alive,\u201d she says. \u201cHe said to me, \u2018The only person I care to trust my children is you.\u2019 I promised him that I\u2019d care for them. And when he died, I inherited over a million children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis has spent the last nine years sorting through his enormous archive, uncovering countless gems from throughout his long career that have never been seen. Many of them can be seen in the new book Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture: Images and Stories from a Photography Legend<\/em><\/a>, which is a companion piece to an upcoming documentary Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall<\/em>, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year.<\/p>\n

We spoke to Davis about 13 images from the new book. Click through<\/a> to see them and read her commentary.<\/p>\n

[Find the Book Here<\/a>]<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time Amelia Davis met Jim Marshall she had absolutely no idea who he was. It was 1998 and Davis, then studying photography at UC Davis, was at a friend\u2019s 30th birthday party packed with strangers. \u201cThere was this little man with a Leica camera around his neck who spotted me and shuffled over,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 10:09:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}