PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS - THE JOPLIN CONNECTION PART 2

PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS. THE JOPLIN CONNECTION

STEPHEN MARLEY POSES FOR LINDSAY

The book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, will be adorned by this portrait of a young Stephen Marley photographed in Miami in 1981. This book will be a self-publishing venture in association with the small independent Welsh publishing house, Marlin Publishing Limited. Everyone who pre-orders a copy will receive a bonus prior to its release. The reason for this is that one intends to ensure strong initial sales for this book. The exclusive pre-order bonus, sadly, will only be revealed prior to publication in August, 2012.
Be Happy!!!

LINDSAY AND THE FIELD MARSHALL

I was to spend times photographing members of The Wailers.
As preperation for the publication of the book PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS gathers pace, I am reminded of probably the best portrait I was to take of "Field Marshall", Mr Carlton "Carly" Barrett.
I was to take this portrait on stage at Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1980, during a sound check.
Mr Barrett was an influential drummer and percussion player.
With his brother, Mr Aston "Family Man" Barrett, they began their careers as members of Mr Lee "Scratch" Perry's house band, The Upsetters.
"Field Marshall" was to popularized the ONE DROP rhythm, a percussive drumming style and with "Fams" on bass, the Wailers rhythm section planted the seeds for Mr Robert Nesta Marley.
Sadly, Mr Carlton Barrett was murdered outside his home in Jamaica in 1987.

THE LEGEND AND LINDSAY DONALD

This portrait which I was to take of the legend in 1980, at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, was iriginally meant to have graced the cover of the first Rastafarian newspaper, Survival.
It did not.
It will instead grace the cover of the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, due to be published in August, 2012.

PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS

THE LEGEND JIMMY CLIFF

LINDSAY DONALD AND THE LEGEND JIMMY CLIFF

I leave you with an example of a photograph which I was to take of Mr Jimmy Cliff in his dressing room in New York in 1981 and which will adorn the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS.

LINDSAY AND JOPLIN, MISSOURI

The Joplin Globe, Saturday, August, 22, 1981. "It is difficult to prove to someone who has not seen the physical evidence that something that has 'vanished' was ever really there. It is hard to sell a book on photographs a person says he once had, unless by chance they would be returned. It is equally as difficult to make someone believe they were ever there. But Donald says they were." The Joplin Globe, Sunday, August, 23, 1981. "Lindsay Donald returned to the offices of The Joplin Globe. He had lucked out. The briefcase was brimming with negatives and his face full of joy."

LINDSAY DONALD AND PAPA JAMES BROWN

Many imgaes I was to take that will adorn the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, are embargoed until publication. I refer to images I was to take in 1983 of The Godfather, Papa James Brown. I was to spend time in his dressing room at a now defunct club, The Red Parrot which was situated on West 57th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenue, New York. The Red Parrot was a huge, block sized club and it actually had parrots in cages at the club and at times featured a Big Band Orchestra. It was to be the one and only time I would ever see Papa James perfom but that night was one big................GAS.

LINDSAY DONALD AND THE UPRISING TOUR

I was to accompany Bob Marley and The Wailers on the UPRISING tour in 1980. Photographs that I took on this tour are probably some of the last unpublished images taken of the Legend Bob Marley. They will be published in my book, Portrait of a Legend and Other Folks, due to be published in August, 2012.

LINDSAY DONALD AND THE BROADWATER FARM

I returned to England in 1985 and spent years as chief photo editor for The Caribbean Times newspaper, the oldest black owned newspaper in UK. I was also to teach photography on one of London's most infamous housing estates, The Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, scene of major riot in 1985.

LINDSAY DONALD AND THE MELODY MAKERS

In 1980, I was one of the first photographers to photograph The Melody Makers, when they released their first single 'Children Playing In The Streets'.

A LITTLE ABOUT LINDSAY DONALD

In 1974 I returned to Jamaica and got a job as a runner on the set of The Marijuana Affair, http://reggaefilms.blogspot.com/2008/10/marijuana-affair-1975-comming-soon.html which was being filmed in Kingston starring the late Calvin Lockhart. It was at this time that I met Bob Marley at 56 Hope Road, Marley's recording studio. After a year in Jamaica, I left to tour Africa and was to spend three years travelling across the Sahara Desert, teaching in Ghana, photographing the Nigerian FESTAC Festival and because of my friendship with the Nigerian musician Fela Ransome Kuti, I was incarcarated in a Lagos detention centre for five months in the same cell with Lieutenant Colonel Buka Suka Dimka, the man who led an abortive military coup against the Nigerian president, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed and who subsequently was later executed.

COMMITTED TO PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS

LINDSAY DONALD 'BRITISHER'

I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1962 I emigrated to Harrow, England, to live with my mother. After leaving school in 1968, I got my first job working for Eastman Kodak where I developed a love for the art of photography.

LINDSAY DONALD PHOTOGRAPHER PART 2

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LINDSAY DONALD

Lindsay Oliver Donald (January 11,1952) is a Jamaican documentary photographer, best known for his black-and-white portrait photographs of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, Muhammad Ali, Michael Manley, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Grahm Nash, Rick James, James Baldwin, Jessie Owens and Stevie Wonder.

THE MARLEY PROJECT - LINDSAY DONALD

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