Jim Marshall: Proof, Jim Marshall, Joel Selvin. Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2004. First Edition. Folio up to 15″ tall., 132pp., illustrated with contact sheets and shots in black and white. Illustrated boards housed in a transparent dust jacket with yellow lettering; grey endpapers. Volume is in fine condition; jacket is fine with light dusting.
Jim Marshall: Proof includes shots of great musical artists of the 1960s and 1970s including the Beatles, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin sheets as well as shots of other giants of arts and letters, including Elia Kazan, William Saroyan, Shelly Berman, Woody Allen, Carol Channing, and Michael Douglas. Photographs taken on magazine assignments in Appalachia and the American South offer telling documents of the rural poor and civil rights struggle. A photography book unlike any other, Jim Marshall: Proof is a unique tour of this acclaimed photographer’s work in larger context, those fleeting instances which surround the classic images identified the world over.
