George S. Zimbel
Canadian, b. United States, 1929–2023
Born 1929, Woburn, Massachusetts
Died 2023, Montreal, Canada
Zimbel attended Columbia University (1947–51), where he wrote, edited, and photographed for the school newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator and formed a camera club with his friend and fellow student Garry Winogrand. In 1949 Zimbel took a summer course with John Ebstel at the Photo League. Upon graduating college, he won a scholarship to Alexey Brodovitch's workshop at the New School for Social Research, New York, and photographed Harlem nightclubs and the Alwin Nikolaïs dance company at the Henry Street Settlement House. From 1951 to 1953 he was a photographer for the United States Army, stationed in Europe, where he built a portfolio of images of European cities while on leave. Upon his return to New York, he established a career as a freelance, receiving assignments from Look, Redbook, The New York Times Magazine, and other periodicals. Since then he has photographed such American notables as Harry S. Truman (1954), Marilyn Monroe (1954), Helen Keller (1956), Mickey Rooney (1957), John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy (1960), and Queen Elizabeth II (1971). In 1971 Zimbel moved with his family to Canada. Retrospectives of his work have been held at the Confederation Centre of Arts, Prince Edward Island (1976) and the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain (2000). Two monographs have since been published, Bourbon Street: New Orleans 1955 and A Book of Readers (2001).
Died 2023, Montreal, Canada
Zimbel attended Columbia University (1947–51), where he wrote, edited, and photographed for the school newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator and formed a camera club with his friend and fellow student Garry Winogrand. In 1949 Zimbel took a summer course with John Ebstel at the Photo League. Upon graduating college, he won a scholarship to Alexey Brodovitch's workshop at the New School for Social Research, New York, and photographed Harlem nightclubs and the Alwin Nikolaïs dance company at the Henry Street Settlement House. From 1951 to 1953 he was a photographer for the United States Army, stationed in Europe, where he built a portfolio of images of European cities while on leave. Upon his return to New York, he established a career as a freelance, receiving assignments from Look, Redbook, The New York Times Magazine, and other periodicals. Since then he has photographed such American notables as Harry S. Truman (1954), Marilyn Monroe (1954), Helen Keller (1956), Mickey Rooney (1957), John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy (1960), and Queen Elizabeth II (1971). In 1971 Zimbel moved with his family to Canada. Retrospectives of his work have been held at the Confederation Centre of Arts, Prince Edward Island (1976) and the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain (2000). Two monographs have since been published, Bourbon Street: New Orleans 1955 and A Book of Readers (2001).
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