The tightly knit world of live music photographers said goodbye to one of their own last week, as word came in of Jim Marshall’s premature death. At John Varvatos’s Spring Street showroom, where Marshall was expected to appear to promote his new book, Match Prints, alongside collaborator Timothy White, the mood was understandably somber. Timothy White called Marshall “royalty in my line of work.”
Match Prints is a “visual and editorial dialogue between two important photographers and longtime friends. Over the course of their twenty-year friendship, Jim Marshall and Timothy White discovered that their work often shared striking similarities despite time differences of as much as three decades. Sometimes the similarity presented itself in the form of a common pose or expression, a common prop or situation. Sometimes the photographers’ subject was the same, the images taken decades apart.”
