( CNN ) -- Jim Marshall was always watching . His contemporaries remember him forever on the spot , four or five cameras draped around his neck , the proverbial fly on the wall . A new book , `` The Haight : Love , Rock and Revolution , '' shows how he chronicled an era . Click : Janis Joplin . Click : Jimi Hendrix at Monterey . Click , click , click : The Beatles at Candlestick Park , the Grateful Dead on a rooftop , the Jefferson Airplane casually jamming . Marshall is justifiably famous for these photos of the famous . But it was n't like he put away his cameras when the rock stars -- then , for the most part , just getting more widely known -- put away their instruments . `` The Haight '' showcases pictures Marshall took from about 1965 to 1968 , when Haight-Ashbury went from a quietly run-down fringe area to the most famous neighborhood in America : Hippie Central . For Marshall , it was also home . `` He lived in the Haight . He was at ground zero , '' says Amelia Davis , Marshall 's longtime assistant , who now oversees the estate of the late photographer . ( Marshall died in 2010 . ) `` So much happened in a short period of time , and Jim saw that . '' The book 's earlier images show a neighborhood on the verge of change . In 1965 , Haight-Ashbury was a mixed-race enclave of cheap apartments and old Victorian houses , home to working-class laborers and Beat artists looking for inexpensive digs . The countercultural bent started early : In one photo , residents are shown protesting the Vietnam War at a time when the war was barely a blip on the national radar . Suddenly the music scene took over , exemplified by the Airplane , the Dead , Big Brother and the Holding Company , Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Charlatans . The Charlatans , who dressed as Edwardian swells , were probably the most deliberately colorful , but it was the other bands who became the legends . Marshall 's eye was able to find the energy in musicians without being sentimental . The Beatles , shot at their last American concert , are caught backstage , pensive and bored ; in one photo , Paul McCartney doodles on a table while Joan Baez smiles into Marshall 's lens . In others , Joplin comes across as innocent and ferocious -- and , sometimes , heartbreakingly sad . Marshall is no less unsparing when shooting the neighborhood , which became a destination for tourists and dropouts . One photo shows a family of six driving through , their car windows safely rolled up as if in protection against long hair . Another shows an inoculation being given at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic . As Quicksilver 's David Freiberg says in the book , `` I had about two weeks that were really happy . After that , it faded pretty quickly . ... The drugs changed . The Gray Line ( tour buses were ) going up the street . '' Marshall got such access because he was a part of the scene . He did n't just take the Beatles ' picture ; he hung out with them . He went to Monterey , the groundbreaking 1967 music festival , because he was pals with many of the acts . `` A lot of the musicians really knew that Jim was n't taking advantage of them . He was there documenting what was happening , and that 's why he was able to get such great shots , '' says Davis . Amazingly , Marshall 's photographs were done on manually operated Leicas -- no autofocus , no special lighting , certainly no Photoshop . `` He was able to compose that shot , in a second , within that viewfinder , and he never cropped his photos , '' Davis says . `` That just tells you his genius . '' These days , when the Haight has become a gentrified stretch of expensive apartments and exclusive boutiques , Marshall 's photographs are even more striking . They show bands on the rise , streets in flux , a time being born -- and , just as quickly , fading away . His lens , `` The Haight '' shows , missed little . `` He was everywhere , '' says Davis .
Photographer Jim Marshall chronicled Haight-Ashbury in the '60s . Hide Caption 1 of 11 Photos:Photos: San Francisco photographer Marshall known for rock ' n ' roll photos , but in new book he captures neighborhood . Photos include images of Janis Joplin , Jimi Hendrix .