Photographer Jim Marshall captured legends at their height - a podcast by RNZ

Photographer Jim Marshall was entrusted with unprecedented access to many of the world's music legends, and he documented many of the greatest events in music history. His best known images include candid photos of Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis and the famous shot of Jimi Hendrix burning his smashed guitar. But he also photographed Woodstock and Vietnam war protesters. Like his subjects, Jim Marshall was difficult, abrasive, passionate and a heavy drug user. After his death he left his hundreds of thousands of images to his long-time - and long-suffering - assistant, Amelia Davis. Amelia worked closely with British documentary photographer and film maker Alfred George Bailey on a film about Jim Marshall. It's screening in New Zealand as part of the touring Resene Architecture Design Film Festival. Lynn Freeman spoke to Alfred in the UK about Jim's ability to get close to his subjects: Alfred George Bailey and his documentary The Story of Jim Marshall is showing in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and here in Dunedin as part of the Resene Architecture Design Film Festival.

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