Il leggendario fotografo musicale Jim Marshall è morto lo scorso 24 marzo all'età di 74 anni a New York.
Era conosciuto sopratutto conosciuto per le sue straordinarie foto di artisti rock quali The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, etc... ma nel corso della sua carriera ha anche ritratto in maniera indimenticabile grandi artisti di jazz quali John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk e Miles Davis. La sua grande forza era quella di guadagnarsi la fiducia dei musicisti che gli lasciavano carta bianca sia dentro che fuori dal palco.
Sul sito personale www.marshallphoto.com è possibile ammirare alcune delle più belle foto di Marshall, accompagnate da alcuni interessanti commenti dello stesso fotografo.
Fra i tanti tributi portati dai giornali di tutto il mondo vorrei segnalare il magnifico articolo del New York Times:
James Joseph Marshall was born in Chicago on Feb. 3, 1936, and moved with his family to San Francisco two years later. His father, a house painter, left when he was a boy, and his mother worked in a laundry. As a child he enjoyed playing with his Kodak Brownie, but it was not until about 1960 that Mr. Marshall, equipped with his first Leica M2, found his calling through a chance encounter with John Coltrane.
“He asked me for directions to a club,” he said in a 2004 interview. “I told him I’d pick him up and take him there if he’d let me take his picture.”
In addition to Coltrane, he shot Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and other jazz stars. But he is best known for his extensive catalog of 1960s and ’70s rockers, which includes most of the San Francisco psychedelic groups as well as Jim Morrison, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young and the Allman Brothers Band.
In 1962 Mr. Marshall moved to Greenwich Village, where his neighbors included Mr. Dylan and Judy Collins. But after two years he returned to San Francisco, where he remained. In his career he shot for Rolling Stone and other magazines and had more than 500 album cover credits.
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Era conosciuto sopratutto conosciuto per le sue straordinarie foto di artisti rock quali The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, etc... ma nel corso della sua carriera ha anche ritratto in maniera indimenticabile grandi artisti di jazz quali John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk e Miles Davis. La sua grande forza era quella di guadagnarsi la fiducia dei musicisti che gli lasciavano carta bianca sia dentro che fuori dal palco.
Sul sito personale www.marshallphoto.com è possibile ammirare alcune delle più belle foto di Marshall, accompagnate da alcuni interessanti commenti dello stesso fotografo.
Fra i tanti tributi portati dai giornali di tutto il mondo vorrei segnalare il magnifico articolo del New York Times:
James Joseph Marshall was born in Chicago on Feb. 3, 1936, and moved with his family to San Francisco two years later. His father, a house painter, left when he was a boy, and his mother worked in a laundry. As a child he enjoyed playing with his Kodak Brownie, but it was not until about 1960 that Mr. Marshall, equipped with his first Leica M2, found his calling through a chance encounter with John Coltrane.
“He asked me for directions to a club,” he said in a 2004 interview. “I told him I’d pick him up and take him there if he’d let me take his picture.”
In addition to Coltrane, he shot Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and other jazz stars. But he is best known for his extensive catalog of 1960s and ’70s rockers, which includes most of the San Francisco psychedelic groups as well as Jim Morrison, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young and the Allman Brothers Band.
In 1962 Mr. Marshall moved to Greenwich Village, where his neighbors included Mr. Dylan and Judy Collins. But after two years he returned to San Francisco, where he remained. In his career he shot for Rolling Stone and other magazines and had more than 500 album cover credits.
Si può leggere l'articolo integrale a questo link.
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