Fans can relive the early days of the Grateful Dead with a new book featuring the work of late photographer Jim Marshall. Out August 5th, 2025 via Chronicle Books, The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall: Photos and Stories from the Formative Years, 1966–1977 will arrive as part of the band’s yearlong 60th-anniversary celebration.
Throughout his lifelong career as one of the great rock n’ roll photographers, Jim Marshall took over 10,000 pictures of the Dead. The hardcover book will include over 200 of his color and black-and-white photos, a third of which have never been published anywhere else, printed in the rich, high-contrast tones that Marshall favored. From career high points to intimate personal moments, Marshall was able to capture these scenes because the band welcomed him in as a peer, colleague, and friend. Marshall documented the Dead as they rose from local favorites in San Francisco to a worldwide phenomenon, with photos from Woodstock, the Newport Pop Festival, the Human Be-In, the last free concert on Haight Street, and much more.
Curated by Amelia Davis and The Grateful Dead Hour host David Gans, The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall includes an afterward by Dead & Company guitarist John Mayer. The book features text from five experts on music, photography, and the Grateful Dead with quotes and commentary from photographers, musicians, and members of the extended Grateful Dead family. Marshall, whom Annie Leibowitz called “the rock n’ roll photographer,” died in 2010 at the age of 74.
The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall: Photos and Stories from the Formative Years, 1966–1977 is available here for pre-order from Chronicle Books.
