One of the greatest bands of all time and one of the greatest music photographers in history
meet in this incredible visual archive featuring exclusive never-before-seen photos. Jim
Marshall took thousands of photos of the Grateful Dead throughout their career—from Woodstock
to the last free concert on Haight Street and beyond. Marshall’s magnificent images chronicle
the band’s trajectory as hairstyles changed relationships came and went and the music evolved
into the sound that would become beloved by generations to come. Marshall’s instinctive eye
matched the Dead’s improvisational style and he was welcomed into its family as he immersed
himself in San Francisco’s counterculture scene throughout the 1960s and ’70s. He documented
casual domestic scenes and transcendent concerts alike offering a nuanced and intimate
portrait of the band. The striking images in this book—a third of which have never been
published—are printed in the rich high-contrast tones that Marshall favored. They include
glimpses of remarkable moments like the Newport Pop Festival Woodstock and the Human Be-In.
Quotes from contemporaries collaborators and members of the wider Dead community bring the
images alive while longer essays contextualize this photographic archive. Whether you were
there from the beginning or wish you had been this is your chance to see a glorious era of
music history as you’ve never seen it before through the eyes of a visionary artist.
