America in Black & White: Selected Photographs of John G. Zimmerman

This book reveals the stunning early work of John G. Zimmerman (1927-2002), a true icon of American photography. His

massive oeuvre gives a unique panorama of American life and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. This

publication presents a selection of black-and-white pictures, shot between 1950 and 1978, which show the rough and uncut

visual ingenuity of Zimmerman.

Zimmerman was a man of many facets and his pictures cover a diversity of subjects, ranging from sports, fashion, arts and

architecture to politics and the Jim Crow South of the 1950s. From producing whimsical ads to covering exclusive stories for

mainstream magazines such as Life, Time, Sports Illustrated and Paris Match, from photographing the Beatles to shooting the

disastrous fire at a General Motors plant... Zimmerman could do it all and did it - always pushing the boundaries of the

photographic medium. In his endless search for a new visual language and the essence of movement, he created whatever he

needed to make the seemingly impossible possible.

John G. Zimmerman was a refined chronicler, who wanted to depict every sphere of society, but above all wanted to see, to see

more, to see it all.