“[All the bands] were just about the music…” he says. “But when The Doors took the stage - and I saw Morrison - it’s like he moved with the photographers.”
Subtly pointing to one of his shots ... Coke notes how the singer moved out of the way of a barricading microphone stand to make a more perfect shot for him. And this wasn’t just a one-time occurrence, but repeated, as Coke’s limited film roll was filled by a series of shots showing Morrison owning not just his vocal cords and the mic, but the world as well.
Jim Coke: This is called “Jim Morrison Scream Sequence.” It’s a digital composition of 11 photos of Jim Morrison singing on stage with the background removed digitally; begun after I found these photos 25 years after I took them.
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Articles of Jim Coke, the photographer, talking about his exeperience photographing Jim and The Doors here and here.
Jim Coke tells the story behind his historic photo shoot of a concert just days before "Light My Fire" went to No. 1 on youtube.
