San Francisco photographer Jim Marshall, who snapped this iconic shot of Johnny Cash, has fired off the legal equivalent of the Man In Black's one-finger salute to the owner of Bill Graham Archives.After a man's shot his thousandth musician, you'd figure he'd see some time in court. That's the case for Jim Marshall -- but he's the plaintiff. The veteran San Francisco music photographer last week filed suit in the city's federal court against Wolfgang's Press, the owner of the Bill Graham Archiv
Late last month, we wrote about how San Francisco photographer Jim Marshall -- whose cry of "Hey, Johnny, how 'bout one for the warden?" resulted in the above iconic shot of the Man in Black -- filed suit in S.F. federal court against Bill Graham Archives to recover 656 of his prints of rock and jazz legends. The photographer claimed the collection has an assessed value of $1,000,500. Marshall now tells SF Weekly that he's reached a settlement with Wolfgang's Press, the company that owns Bill Gr
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