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John Gerald Zimmerman (born 30 October 1927, Pacoima, CA - died 3 August 2002, Monterey, CA) was one of America's premier magazine photographers. His hallmarks of technical precision and innovation produced groundbreaking photographs and influenced a generation of photographers. ==Early life and career== Zimmerman was interested in photography from an early age. His father, John L. Zimmerman, a gaffer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, taught him the basics and bought him a 4x5 view camera. John G. joined a photographic hobby club in junior high school and spent afternoons developing film with friends in their mothers’ kitchens. Zimmerman took a three-year photography course at John C. Fremont High School in Los Angeles, where he was taught by Hollywood cinematographer Clarence Bach.〔(Sports Illustrated, Bach retires )〕 After graduating high school, Zimmerman served as a Navy photographer. In 1950, he landed a job as a staff photographer at the ''Time'' bureau in Washington D.C. His first assignment on November 1, 1950 demonstrated his capacity for capturing split-second action - Zimmerman was driving away from the White House with a group of photographers when two Puerto Rican Nationalists stormed nearby Blair House, attempting to assassinate President Truman. Hearing gunshots, the photographers rushed out of the car. Only Zimmerman had a camera around his neck; the others had locked theirs in the trunk. Zimmerman got the first photos of the attack,〔(Boston Globe )〕 which were featured in both ''Time'' and ''Life''. In 1952, Zimmerman moved to Atlanta. During his time there he shot a series of noteworthy assignments for ''Ebony'' depicting the experiences of African Americans in the Jim Crow South and the Midwest.〔(Google Books, Ebony Magazine )〕 By 1954 he had moved to Detroit and was freelancing for ''Life''. One assignment required him to document Detroit’s old Mariners' Church being moved to a new location across town. The building’s move took four weeks to complete, yet Zimmerman’s photo gives the effect of the church hurtling through downtown Detroit at top speed.〔( Moving Mariners' Church, Life Magazine )〕 The use of technology to show on film what the naked eye could never see would become a hallmark of Zimmerman’s work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John G. Zimmerman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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