Bob Marley

In the last two years of his life Marley underwent a dramatic change, becoming a gentler and more philosophical version of himself. He also met photographer Bruce Talamon, to whom he granted unprecedented access, both off the stage and on it. The result is this visual record, which, paired with Roger Steffen’s text tracing Marley’s life from his youth in Jamaica to worldwide acceptance, captures (in the words of the late Timothy White’s introduction) the private warmth, social equanimity, zealous determination…and personal magnetism of Bob Marley.