1. JIM MARSHALL
Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead at an outdoor concert in San Francisco in 1968
Photograph by Jim Marshall
The angle of view is the band performing live, it includes band members, instruments, streets and the audience.
The foreground of the photograph is the band perfoming on the stage. The background is hundreds of fans that
have come to see the band perform at an outdoor concert, also there are buildings on either side of the fans.
Marshall has taken the photograph from behind the band performing to not only capture the band but also
the large audience. It has been taken perfectly in the middle looking down on the band members and the
audience. The photograph is music photography,looking at it the photograph looks like it’d be Rock ‘N’ Roll. A
lot of Marshall’s work reminds me of Ami Barwells work as she does a lot of monochrome live band shots and
they have the same kind of look as this photograph.
The photograph includes some certain rules for example: Leading Lines, the buildings lead your eyes to along
the audieence and makes you follow it until they dissapear. There is also Depth Of Field, the band members are
in focus and as the you follow the audience down from them they get blurrier. Towards the end of the leading
lines the buildings look quite similar on each side (Symmetry) but the natural light (Day Light) makes the back
of the photograph too bright.
It looks like it’s been naturally taken, Marshall has taken the photograph as they band members are playing
and the audience is cheering/ waving hands/ dancing for them to keep playing. This photograph would have
been used for old magazines such as Kerrang and The Rolling Stones, it’d also be used for the bands CD’s. This
photograph was taken in 1968 but it could still be used now to make a posters, Album booklet Photograph or it
could be sold as it’s an old photograph.
Marshall would have been using the old film based style of photography when taking this therefore he would
have to be more reliant on the camera settings because editing afterwards was limited unlike now.

2. I think the photograph makes it obvious what genre of music photography it is/ what genre of music they play
(Rock), this is because of the ‘hipster’ hair, what they’re wearing and the instruments. Also this is what a lot of
rock bands looked like around the 1960’s. I like the angle of the photograph, it has been taken behind the band
showing the audience aswell as the band. The photograph shows they was an exremly popular band with the
amount of people who went to see them at the outdoor concert. The photograph is eyecatching and I think it’s
mainly because of the leading lines and symmetry. I like monochrome live band photographs and this is a good
example of one. This photograph could be publishied and would make a good ‘live performance’ poster or a
music magazine photograph, as a small paper poster or showing the band performing talking about the day
and interviewing some fans or band members. I think this photograph is an excellent example of music
photography and I don’t think it could be improved in any way.