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There is a thread regarding the fight artists must wage to protect their rights to the images they create. What were your impressions of the Queen?

She was like a queen. No one thinks about it.

Your work has been largely taking photos of people. Twenty-four or thirty-six shots is limiting. Everyone said we were crazy.

The documentary is a fascinating look at this humanist photographer. It is the word “intellectual” that makes it OK to steal. I want to share. Politicians” in the fall of 1994. Why did you choose The Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown in 1976 to show these photos that have become iconic?

I don’t do celebrity pictures but I look at the shoot and think, Yeah, I’m proud of it.

These were included and the first time they were exhibited… that’s when I started to feel what was there.

‘In 1967 when you had the World’s Fair I met a woman and she was an architect and she said, “Montreal is the artistic soul of Canada”. Zimbel photographed for over 70 years with an eye that was life positive and he regularly produced new work.

 

An alumnus of Columbia University, the Photo League and the Alexey Brodovitch Seminar, Zimbel honed his craft in New York City, working for national magazines (Look, The New York Times, Redbook, Parents, Architectural Forum).

We see the very young photographer and his growing family. In the month of May 1999, he had a solo exhibition in Toronto curated by Stephen Bulger Gallery, appeared in a 1960’s exhibition at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, and a group show of Quebec photographs at the CMCP in Ottawa. Institute of Technology for U.S.I.A. You could move in close and the worst that would happen is someone would smile and say, “What are you doing?” “I’m taking your picture.” And the person would say, “Oh, that’s nice.”

In the last few decades, you have had numerous exhibits of your works shown around the world.

I persisted. It is not, after all, like stealing from a bank or from a house. He photographed annual report projects for Carborundum Company, General Railway Signal, and Xerox. A hallmark of his approach is nonintervention. He photographed what was really happening and felt that serious observation is more important than creating a scene.

 

When Zimbel exhibited his work, the walls were hung with photographs spanning decades from the 1940s onwards, always printed by the artist himself.

After thirty-nine years, the print of the Kennedys is back where it belongs. Everyday people. (IVAM p.136-137) Began series : 2nd Generation Americans (IVAM p.112) Photographed Marilyn Monroe Seven Year Itch session in New York (IVAM p.66-79) Left for Texas to continue 2nd generation project.