“I do see the music. This ‘career’ has never been just a job, it’s been my life.” – Jim Marshall
The famous corner of Haight-Ashbury streets, June 1967 (detail). Photo courtesy of Jim Marshall LLC.
EXHIBITION
What would it have been like to be an ambitious music photographer in San Francisco in 1967? Jim Marshall’s 1967 follows iconic photographer Jim Marshall as he captured some of the most important cultural and social events of the year that defined an everlasting identity for San Francisco. Marshall had an all-access pass to documenting history in the making. He was living and working in San Francisco when California bands like Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield, The Charlatans, and the Grateful Dead were at the forefront of solidifying a cultural movement that had its heyday in 1967. Visitors can follow the artist as he shoots album covers for Jefferson Airplane, relaxes at home with Janis Joplin, documents the Summer of Love and Human Be-In, cavorts with the Hell’s Angels, and gets impossibly close onstage with Jimi Hendrix.
ARTIST
Marshall’s career spanned over 50-years and he created hundreds of legendary images that are fixed onto the public consciousness. His photographs have appeared on the covers of over 500 albums and captured iconic and candid portraits of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and countless others. In a 2014 article in The New York Times, celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz called Marshall, “the rock ‘n’ roll photographer.”
THE BOOK
The Haight: Love, Rock And Revolution is Jim Marshall's award winning book on the counter culture movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960's.
PRESS
Jim Marshall’s 1967 has been featured in multiple publications. Select coverage includes: The Guardian, Juxtapoz, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, and Curbed SF.
Exhibition Format
Wall-Hanging |
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Core Exhibition Content |
60 Framed Photographs (b&w and color in various sizes) |
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Space Requirements |
1000-square-foot gallery space minimum |
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Rental Fee |
$6,000 / $9,000 / $12,000* |
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2-8 weeks / 9-12 weeks / 13-16 weeks |
*Rental fee includes core exhibition, complete inventory of works, communication with exhibition curator, print-ready images for promotional purposes, print-ready exhibition signage, graphic design files and standards, suggested public programing, and a copy of the book, The Haight: Love, Rock And Revolution.
Rental fee does NOT include shipping costs to and from your institution, printed exhibition signage, or travel expenses and speaking fees for the artist or curator.
CONTACT THE CURATOR
Meg Shiffler is the curator of Jim Marshall’s 1967 along with Amelia Davis, owner of Jim Marshall, LLC. Shiffler is also the Galleries Director and Chief Curator for the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries. She was a faculty member of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and lectures regularly at academic and cultural institutions. Shiffler worked in New York at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Andrea Rosen Gallery and Ursula Meyer Art Conservancy, and was the cofounder and Director of Visual Art for the multidisciplinary art center, Consolidated Works in Seattle.
This exhibition is produced in partnership with Jim Marshall Photography LLC, established with the primary goal to preserve and protect Marshall's extraordinary legacy as a discerning photojournalist and a pioneer of rock-and-roll photography. The estate is continuing the legacy of Jim Marshall through sales and licensing, exhibitions, publishing, and the development of a comprehensive catalog as a reference for the totality of his life's work.
Contact Meg Shiffler at meg.shiffler@sfgov.org (415) 252-2234