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Jim Marshall

Tom Zimberoff
20 min readJul 24, 2021

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My only iPhone portrait; and the last photo of Jim ever made; March 14, 2010 / © Tom Zimberoff / All Rights Reserved

It wasn’t the first time a brash photographer clashed with security at a rock concert, stopped from going backstage without a pass. Jim Marshall, a fierce competitor who would elbow you out of his way to make a picture, was lashing out with his equally sharp and ill-tempered tongue at the bouncers blocking his way. Impresario Bill Graham, who ran the show, overheard the ruckus, intervened, and declared…

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