If you look at Matt at MOMA 1960’s in my children’s section, you will see a boy looking up..the boy is still looking up. (Right in first row..right on.!) [Manteca photo ©Denise Grant 2007] I received this email yesterday and …
Manteca in concert -“Canada Live” tonight wherever you are. Read More »
Returning to London after forty years fragmented my emotions They were high because of the exhibition, and low because I was there alone. I wanted Elaine with me. The day I arrived a killing bomb went off in a pub …
Words Without Pictures #12 George S. Zimbel ©2007 Read More »
I am on the metro I have my camera My eyes hunt A mother holds her infant She does not look at the child She does not talk to the child She just holds the child It is the saddest …
Words Without Pictures #3 George S. Zimbel ©2007 Read More »
I have been photographing seriously since I was 14 (not necessarily very well!). That’s 64 years, and because I make my own prints (a philosophical matter) I realise that I have outrun my capacity to print what I want to …
©George S. Zimbel 1951/2007 Lou Bernstein changed my life, but he never knew it. As the summer of 1949 approached, I decided to stay in New York and freelance. I felt that if I made it that summer I could …
Irish Dancehall, The Bronx 1954 ©George S. Zimbel 1954/2007 I was sorry to hear about the death of John Szarkowski, the retired curator of photography at MOMA. I am happy for him that he had returned to photography as a …
When I heard of the death of Marcel Marceau I thought of my experience with Etienne deCroux, Marcel Marceau’s teacher. He worked with many actors in New York during the 1950’s , including Jean Seberg and Alan Arkin. I was …
I was visiting Fotofest in Houston in the 1990’s and bumped into Cornell Capa. We had both been “on the trail” during the Stevenson presidential campaigns of the 1950’s, and later he had asked me for some prints for the …
As you can see from my work, I have lived among animals, both human and beast for a long time. On city streets since the 1940’s, in 1955 on the Chester Bonn Ranch in Texas, in 1957 with Jack Ryan, …