Cash getting ready to “shoot one for the warden,” San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, 1969

jim was a master of capturing reality through a particular lens and that lens, not being on the camera, could only magically come from his eye. . . . When I look at the famous picture of my father with his middle finger raised at Jim Marshall’s lens, I feel the energy of the moment, I feel my father’s sense of defiance.

JOHN CARTER CASH

JOHNNY CASH “giving one to the warden”

THE CASH FAMILY embraced Marshall and allowed him into their lives and their Hendersonville, Tennessee, home just like he was one of the family. And the intimate, powerful portraits that emerged—many taken during the Carter Family Thanksgiving of 1969—are the legacy of that trust. Clockwise from top left: JOHNNY CASH with his beloved parents, RAY and CARRIE CASH, singer-songwriter Renaissance men KRIS KRISTOFFERSON and SHEL SILVERSTEIN, and his adored wife, JUNE CARTER CASH.

B.B. KING performing at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, 1968

CHUCK BERRY performing at Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1969

MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD at a recording session for Super Session at Columbia Records Studio, Los Angeles, 1968

JIM MORRISON at the Northern California Folk Rock Festival, Santa Clara, California, 1968

MILES DAVIS, Isle of Wight Concert, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, 1970

RICHIE HAVENS opening the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, 1969

PETE TOWNSHEND of the Who performing at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, 1969

THE WHO, Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, 1969

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, 1969