Fascinating encounter

Ned, this guy's work is great. Ha, I bet you're sorry you didn't engage him in a conversation!! Thanks for the story and the site link.
 
Hmmm set me thinking. Too often when someone speaks to me in the street I pretend I did not hear or cut the incipient conversation short. I think after reading this I have decided that when an altercocker comes up to me in the street and speaks to me I will make the time to say g'day. After all it may lead to an encounter like this and even if it does not, when I am an altercocker myself perhaps someone will do me the same kindness.
 
How did he take those pictures of Marilyn in the dark? No flash, I presume. The grain of fast film in those days would have been the size of tennis balls!

And how did he get so close to President Kennedy to take those pictures? Did he have a press pass?
 
"Holy ----..." were the first words from my lips after clicking on the link. Sometimes you never know who you're rubbing elbows with. Hell of a story.

waileong said:
And how did he get so close to President Kennedy to take those pictures? Did he have a press pass?
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It was simply a different world back then (several different worlds, come to think of it). As a kid, I got to shake Bobby Kennedy's hand when he came to my neighborhood for his presidential campaign. Mind you, this was a scant few years after RFK's assassination, and mere months before his own.

And, again, Zimbel's photos are priceless. (We're all bookmarking his site, right?)


- Barrett
 
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NB23 said:
It was last week-end, during a regular week-end walk with my wife in Montreal streets.

SNIP

So he asked one last time: "Is that a M4?"
Me: Oh, sorry! No, it's a M4P!
Him: Pardon me?
Me: M4-P (and waving the camera so he could see the little "P" letter.
Him: Ah yes, I know that camera. I own an M2, Two M3's, an M4...
Me: Wow! (in my mind I was more like "yeah right, good try!")
Him: I have many photographs from Montreal, Paris, New-York... All from the 50's and up.
Me: That's nice!
Him: Here's my card.

He gave me his card, I thanked him and he left, pushing his oldfashioned bicycle on the sidewalk. I didn't watch him vanish in the crowd. I was fascinated by his card: A White card with only "georgezimbel.com" with a typewriter font printed
on the left side. As simple as that, in a totally anti-fashion fashion.

A few days have passed until I decided I'd have enough time to sit down and look at someone's website, some photographs, without pressure. I remmebered the name on the card and I typed.

Wow I am floored! Look at this: www.georgezimbel.com !
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Wow, and double Wow! What great shots, and what a great story.

(Imagine if those shots were in modern digital rather than film: yuck.)

If that shot of the woman singing behind the bar, with the woman sitting at the bar, was taken in NY, then it may have been at the old Metropole cafe (~ W. 53 St?) It was joint I frequented in my wayward youth; great jazz, with ladies of the night circulating among the patrons.

From another alterknacker,

Harry
 
hlockwood said:
Wow, and double Wow! What great shots, and what a great story.

(Imagine if those shots were in modern digital rather than film: yuck.)

If that shot of the woman singing behind the bar, with the woman sitting at the bar, was taken in NY, then it may have been at the old Metropole cafe (~ W. 53 St?) It was joint I frequented in my wayward youth; great jazz, with ladies of the night circulating among the patrons.

From another alterknacker,

Harry
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P.S. I'm in love with Chelo.

Harry
 
Wowww. Thanks for sharing the story and the link. What a great body of work !!! I have to admit I had never heard of Geroge Zimble before - of course seen some of his pictures but never known who was the man behind the camera. I will load up some BW rolls again. It does have a different quality to it and works like this prove it once more. It's not about he pixel peeping and how many MP's you have got.

It's about the frame and the light. You have to be there and see it - and capture the moment.....
 
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