Vacant SFUSD Building At Fell & Franklin Gets Jazzy Jim Marshall Photo Installation

Vacant SFUSD Building At Fell & Franklin Gets Jazzy Jim Marshall Photo InstallationPhoto via SFJAZZ
Rose Garrett
Published on September 07, 2016

A new public photography installation has gone up in the windows of the long-vacant San Francisco Unified School District building at Fell & Franklin. 

Installed by neighboring SFJAZZ and curated by SFJAZZ photographer laureate Jim Goldberg, the new installation displays works by celebrated photographer Jim Marshall, who made his name documenting musicians of the '60s and '70s. 

"The installation will include 24 photographs, featuring Tony Williams, Joe Henderson, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Mary Lou Williams, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd, and current SFJAZZ resident artistic director Mary Stallings," said SFJAZZ's Marshall Lamm. SFJAZZ previously utilized the building to display a Herman Leonard photo show back in January 2013, when the jazz center first opened. 

The installation's debut coincides with the publication of a new Jim Marshall photobook, featuring jazz festival photographs from the 1960s. It's not the only Marshall tribute in the neighborhood, either—last month, street artist Shepard Fairey installed a new mural above PROXY, which is based on a Marshall photo of Cesar Chavez. (Sadly, it's since been vandalized.) 

Though the installation is already up, it'll have a grand unveiling this Thursday, Sept. 8th at 6pm, to coincide with the kickoff of SFJAZZ's fifth anniversary season. It will remain up through May 2017.