You Never Know Where the Music Will Take You

Jim Marshall (1936–2010) was arguably the most important music photographer of the 20th century and was the only photographer granted unlimited backstage access to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and Altamont. His archive spans three decades of American culture at its most turbulent and electric. He shot the Beatles' final concert at Candlestick Park in 1966, documented the Rolling Stones' first American tour, and made what became one of the most reproduced photographs in music history: Johnny Cash flipping the finger at Folsom Prison. His civil rights work from the early 1960s, embedding with marchers, documenting the March on Washington, and photographing SNCC volunteers, reflected a moral seriousness that ran beneath all of his work. Marshall was famously protective of his (more than a million) negatives, storing everything meticulously and retaining his own rights throughout his career. This retrospective spans three decades of American music and culture at its most defining moments.