Celebrating 10 years of the Jim Marshall + Jack Daniel's + ACL Live partnership and the U.S. Premiere of Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall documentary film.
Space is limited. Event is by invite only and non-transferrable. Limit to one +1 per invitation.
Masks required while not actively eating or drinking. Vaccinations highly encouraged.
Through these images and those of the jazz scene and vibrant counter-culture revolution of San Francisco and the early New York folk scene of the 60’s, Marshall’s photographs captured an era more powerfully than any moving image. In addition to documenting the dynamic music scene of the time, Marshall also photographed coal miners in Kentucky and families of murdered civil rights activists in Mississippi. It was his abrasive but honest approach, combined with an incredible skill to build trust, that gave him exceptional access to his subjects and allowed him to expand his portfolio beyond celebrities - documenting history across the ages.An outsider with attitude, Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall, the award winning documentary chronicles the infamous photographer’s life behind and outside the camera. A child of immigrants and a life battling inner demons, Jim fought his way to become one of the most trusted mavericks behind a lens throughout the 60’s and 70’s. A passion for capturing the decisive moment resulted in some of the most iconic images in music history from Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and Miles Davis. Throughout his groundbreaking career Jim crossed boundaries to document many of the extraordinary social movements of the time.
This program will feature a special post screening talk with the film’s Executive Producer and Jim Marshall Photography LLC’s owner, Amelia Davis and Award-winning Magnum Photographer, Photojournalist, Author & Clinical Professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and Media, Eli Reed, along with one of the main narrators of Show Me The Picture: The Story Of Jim Marshall, Michelle Margetts. Mary Alice Harper, Head of Description and Access, Visual Materials at the Harry Ransom Center, will moderate the discussion.
Amelia Davis, owner of Jim Marshall Photography LLC, was the longtime personal assistant to legendary photographer Jim Marshall. Upon his death in 2010, Marshall left his entire estate to Davis to carry on his legacy. Since his passing, Davis has edited seven Jim Marshall monographs and curated yearly photographic exhibitions of Marshall’s work and was the catalyst for the legendary photographer receiving a posthumous Trustees Award-2014 from The Recording Academy (Grammy) for his chronicling music of the Twentieth Century.
Davis was the driving force behind the award-winning documentary Show Me The Picture: The Story Of Jim Marshall and its companion book. Her thoughtful and honest approach to Jim Marshall’s incredible life has solidified Marshall’s status as one of the most important photojournalists of his generation.
Davis, a San Francisco based award-winning photographer, has three books of her own: The First Look (about breast cancer survivors), My Story: A Photographic Essay on Life with Multiple Sclerosis (about living with MS, and Faces of Osteoporosis (about Osteoporosis).
Michelle Margetts came to interview Jim Marshall for a college assignment in 1984 and instead got a crazed May-December relationship and a crash course in ethics before going to New York City where she had a two-decade career as a proficient music journalist, freelance writer/designer/editor and ground-breaking web producer. After Jim’s death, she set up social media and wrote the comprehensive blog for Jim Marshall Photography LLC and continues to support Jim’s archive and legacy.
Mary Alice Harper is a professional archivist specializing in photography collections, holding degrees in Art History and Library and Information Science. She is head of Visual Materials Description and Access at the Harry Ransom Center, where she has worked since 1996. During her tenure, her primary work has been with the Center's encyclopedic Photography Collection that spans the history of the medium. Harper has cataloged individual photographs, ranging from the earliest extant photograph, Nicéphore Niépce's 1827 untitled 'point de vue,' to works by contemporary artists including LaToya Ruby Frazier and Dawoud Bey. She has also worked on notable large collections that include Magnum Photo's New York print library, Arnold Newman's photographic archive, and the life's work and personal papers of photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, whom she worked with for 20 years.
Celebrating 10 years of the Jim Marshall + Jack Daniel's + ACL Live partnership and the U.S. Premiere of Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall documentary film.
Space is limited. Event is by invite only and non-transferrable. Limit to one +1 per invitation.
Masks required while not actively eating or drinking. Vaccinations highly encouraged.