she had absolutely no idea who he was. It was 1998 and Davis, then studying photography at UC Davis, was at a friend’s 30th birthday party packed with strangers. “There was this little man with a Leica camera around his neck who spotted me and shuffled over,” she says. “I said to him, ‘I’m a photographer. What do you do?’ He goes, ‘I’m a photographer too.
Davis worked closely with Marshall over the next 13 years, helping him curate his enormous photography archive and deal with the chaos of his daily life. “He was still doing a lot of cocaine when I started working for him,” she says. “So he was kind of erratic. He would binge and nobody could get ahold of him for days. I saw this incredible photographer that was trying to kill himself. He was just so destructive.
Marshall never had any children and when he suddenly died in 2010, he left his entire archive to Davis. “His photos really were his children and he really cared for them when he was alive,” she says. “He said to me, ‘The only person I care to trust my children is you.’ I promised him that I’d care for them. And when he died, I inherited over a million children.”
Davis has spent the last nine years sorting through his enormous archive, uncovering countless gems from throughout his long career that have never been seen. Many of them can be seen in the new bookShow Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshallto see them and read her commentary.
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