Exhibit Offers Taste of Music's Greatest Photos

In those days few people actually met Marshall, but many encountered (or confronted) him. Jim's passion for music and musicians, combined with his dedication to the photographing of those musicians and their world, created a maniacal Marshall who was at once a detested, feared presence at any function and the finest and most respected photographer on the scene.

We can recall Marshall pushing his way onto a stage, armed with four or five Leicas (M2s, M4s) during a performance; or seeing him lying flat on an arena floor in front of the stage, clicking away and getting pictures that would end up on album covers (he's done more than 500) or magazine covers, publicity shots, parts of articles, documentaries or anthologies.

Marshall spent the early '60s in New York's Greenwich Village, took some great pictures, then returned home in time to become the most admired photographer of San Francisco's great rock years. Along the way he also shot thousands of pictures of jazz, blues, folk, country music and purely "pop" musicians - and the scene around them.