The "Haight" of the counterculture movement.

• Position: Literary Scene - The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution - Book review

"[Photographer Jim Marshall] helped immortalize artists such as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Jefferson Airplane before they became household names."

THE COUNTERCULTURE movement of the 1960s is one of the most continually fascinating and endlessly examined milestones of the 20th century. Widely regarded as the cradle of the social revolution, "the Haight"--symbolized by the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets--grew from a small neighborhood in San Francisco, Calif., to a worldwide phenomenon.

Jim Marshall (1936-2010) visually chronicled the movement as perhaps no one else did. Armed with his trusted Leica M4 camera and unlimited access, he was a principal photographer at Woodstock and the only photographer allowed backstage at the Beatles final concert. He also helped immortalize artists such as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Jefferson Airplane before they became household names. Marshall was the first photographer to receive posthumously an honorary Grammy Trustees Award for documenting the evolution of music over...