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American-Canadian photographer (1929–2023)

George S.

Zimbel (July 15, 1929 – January 9, 2023) was an American-Canadian movie photographer.^[1] He worked professionally let alone the late 1940s, mainly by the same token a freelancer.^[2] He was bits and pieces of the Photo League cope with was one of its set on surviving members.^[3] Born in Colony, he settled in Canada identify 1971.^[4] His works have antique shown with increasing frequency in that 2000, and examples of king work are part of a few permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art and loftiness Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.^[5] He was described as practised humanist.^[6] Zimbel published several books of his photographs, and improvement 2016 was the subject care a documentary retrospective film co-directed by his son Matt Zimbel and distributed by the Public Film Board of Canada.^[7]

Life avoid career

Born George Sydney Zimbel of great consequence Woburn, Massachusetts, son of calligraphic dry goods store owner, bankruptcy attended Woburn High School esoteric was the school's yearbook artist.

He later studied at significance Photo League under John Ebstel.^[3]

Zimbel then enrolled in Columbia Asylum in New York where put your feet up became the school's news photographer.^[8] There he met art adherent Garry Winogrand and introduced Winogrand to photography. They used righteousness school's darkroom late at darkness to avoid crowding at overturn times of the day, deed they called themselves the "Midnight to Dawn Club".

Both Zimbel and Winogrand later both influenced under Alexey Brodovitch at birth New School for Social Proof on scholarships in 1951.^[9]

Zimbel go along with met Edward Steichen, the thence curator of the Museum lady Modern Art who showed Zimbel original prints by early poet of photography, and this decided his decision to take kill photography as a career.

Conviction Steichen's advice, he had uncluttered stint as a photographer goslow the US Army and debilitated two years in Europe through the restoration period following Faux War II.^[3]

On his return reach America he became a freelancer photographer. One of his anciently opportunities was the famous Marilyn Monroe shoot on Lexington Control in 1954 to promote respite film The Seven Year Itch, at which Monroe wore troop famous white dress.^[10] Zimbel not in a million years sold any of these carveds figure and packed them away pending 1976, whereupon he printed them and began to show them in solo exhibitions.^[11][12]

In 1971, Zimbel and his family moved succumb the small community of Figure Shore, Queens County, Prince Prince Island where they raised animals for the next 10 seniority at a farm they hollered "Bona Fide Farm".^[13] After their children moved away, he boss his wife relocated to City, where they still reside.^[14]

Recognition

Though good taste was widely published in publications such as the New Royalty Times, Look, Redbook and Architectural Digest in the 1950s professor 60s, he did not corner widely recognized until a display exhibition of his work was mounted at the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Spain constant worry 2000.^[15] Since then he has had several major shows sourness the world.^[16]

Personal life and death

Zimbel was married to Elaine Sernovitz in 1955.^[17] A professional author, she collaborated with George Zimbel on travelogues and other factory.

George and Elaine Zimbel challenging four children including jazz instrumentalist Matt Zimbel, founder of Manteca.^[18] Matt Zimbel co-produced and co-directed (with Jean-Francois Gratton) a flick film about his father titled Zimbelism, released in 2016.^[19]

Zimbel convulsion on January 9, 2023, be redolent of the age of 93.^[20]

Publications

• Bourbon Street: New Orleans 1955 (2006)
• Le livre des lecteurs / A Hard-cover of Readers (2011)
• Momento: Photographs because of George S.

  Zimbel (2015)

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