George Zimbel’s Flatiron Building 2001 wil be offered at Yann Le Mouel auction in Paris on 21 November 2009. (#154).
This is the first time this prints has been exhibited and auctioned. Printed and signed by GSZ.

Jacqueline & John Kennedy, NYC 1960                     ©George S.Zimbel 1960/2009

Collections: Museum of Modern Art, NYC,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, International Center of Photography NYC, Musee National Des Beaux-Arts Du Quebec.

The Amazing Food Service has just opened Zimbel’s Cafe at 410 Adelaide Street West in Toronto . It  is a comfortable neighbourhood place serving great food in a comfortable environment. The installation of a wall of George Zimbel’s New York photographs by Stephen Bulger Gallery makes it a visual experience that reflects a way of photographic presentation that is fast disappearing…silver gelatin prints made by the photographer…in this case, Andrew Zimbel’ s  father. They are   hung salon syle.

The Kennedy photograph on the wall  is also included in the Museum of Modern Art travelling exhibition “Picturing New York” now on view at Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea (MART) a Trento eReverto in Italy. It will then travel to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

Vernissage July 4 between 2-5

This exhibition explores  the pre-post modern portrait photograph with an exciting collection  of  B&W  images introduced with an essay by Natasha  Christia, Kowasa

I  am happy to be represented by my photograph  Serious  Marilyn, NYC  1954

A Photographer’s Welcome – Catalunya Music Palace , Barcelona 2008

My exhibition, “Energy” opened at Kowasa Gallery in Barcelona on 9 April and will be on the wall until 31 May.

The day before the exhibit opened , Elaine and I were visiting the Catalunya Music Palace and were planning to have lunch in the courtyard. There were no chairs available and one of the other guests at a nearby table went inside and brought us chairs. I said gracias and gave him an invitation to the exhibit. Then I went to make a phone call.

When I came back this was my reception . The gentleman and his daughter came to the opening…she is a photography student.

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 ICP collection which I donated rather ungraciously because I was broke.

Adlai Stevenson “The Egghead” NYC 1956 ©George S. Zimbel 1956/2007

He suggested we go for a walk and along the way, asked “What do you do?” I was a bit shocked. Of course for a photographer the answer to the question “What do you do?” is: “Look at my photographs and you will know.” Maybe he meant what was I doing in Canada, but that’s not the way I took it. Sorry Cornell.

Photography doesn’t need written language to describe what it does. It can be viewed and appreciated ….or scorned, by anyone. It has been called a democratic art, usually by those who prefer elitist art, but I think the description is apt and I am happy with it.

I want to share what I have seen with anyone anywhere who wants to look. Of course millions of people can see photographs which are published and that is good, but the experience of looking at an exhibition of prints produced by a photographer is the purest way to look at the work, and I am honoured and excited each time I am asked to exhibit my work.

On the subject of exhibits, I organized and curated the first exhibition of the late B.H. “Jack” Turner, a retired farmer from Prince Edward Island Canada. He was 92, and amazed at the outpouring of interest. Then he was flabbergasted when I told him Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum had purchased four of his photo sculptures from WW1. ”There’s pictures everywhere if you can just see them.” he told me. He kept seeing them to age 100 and I hope I can do the same. Stay tuned.

George S. Zimbel
Montreal 2007

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, the County Agent in Tishomingo Okla., on our Bona Fide Farm, Prince Edward Island in the 1970’s and after 2000 with Lilly our dog, in Quebec.
So, when I received the invitation from Parc La Villette in Paris to show ” Boy & Great Dane, Harlem 1962″ I was very happy. Now that exhibition is opening and you can get the information at:

http://www.villette.com/manif/manif.aspx?id=1043