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ZIMBEL, GEORGE (1929- ) "Enhanced Marilyn Portfolio" with 23 photographs. With a printed introduction entitled "Marilyn" and a facsimile of the essay "The Man who Snapped the Skirt," by Vicente Molina Fox. Silver prints, 11 1/4x7 3/4 inches (28.6x19.7 cm.); and an extra small-format print measuring 2 3/4x2 1/4 inches (7.0x5.7 cm.), each with Zimbel's signature, most with his title, copyright and date, in pencil, on verso. Large 4to-size portfolio, black leatherette; contents loose as issued. 1954; printed 1986-2004
This suite of photographs was shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Norton Museum, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, and were featured on PBS; "American Masters." Zimbel writes about the experience: "I was a 25-year old freelance photographer and will always remember that session. It was like a lesson in the history of modern photography. There were press photographers with their Speed Graphics, which they called "real cameras." There were young photographers from the "bellybutton school" using Rolliflexes and Ikoflexes. Most of us younger photographers were using 35mm cameras -- Leicas, Nikons, Canons, Contaxes -- all rangefinder models with no motors, no built-in anything."
"Leg Up" "Toosh" "Marilyn and Billy" "The Energy" "Quiet Moment" "Serious Marilyn" "Looking Left" "With Lytess" "The Flower" (small print), plus "From the Black Lagoon" "The Puppet" "With Feingersh" "The Crotch" "Squat" "Blown Up" "Perky" "Ecstacy" "Winchel [sic] and DiMaggio" "Marilyn and Billy" (2) "Holding it Down" "Enjoying the Air" "Marilyn Arrives with cop" "The Clacker."
