A Photographic Memory
Tom ZimberoffNOT JUST FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. Inside stories from the heyday of magazines, when a photo assignment and a press pass opened doors to fame, history, accident, and whatever happened just outside the frame.
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The White Fence
Condido “Mouse” Guztamonte / ©1984 Tom Zimberoff
It was three o’clock in the morning. I figured it would be safe; my accomplices and I might get away with our caper.
I lay prone, propped up on my elbows, looking out the back of a 1970-som...
Photobesity
©2026 Tom Zimberoff
By the turn of the millennium in Japan, teenagers were crowding purikura kiosks in shopping malls, train stations, and bowling alleys, making decorative photo stickers to trade with friends. They were already in the hab...
The Lost Weekend
© 1973 Tom Zimberoff / all rights reserved / not for reproduction
Starting out, one spends more time pitching portfolios than shooting assignments, enduring the astringent indifference to one’s hard work and aspirations by those being pitc...
A Cold Call, It Was
©1989 Tom Zimberoff / all rights reserved / not for reproduction
I. Skywalker Ranch
The 1989 Mill Valley Film Festival, in association with the Hanson Gallery in neighboring Sausalito, was about to present an exhibition of my...
Blown Away By Geologic Time
©1980 Tom Zimberoff / story may optionally be read by an artifical voice
In the spring of 1980, scientists at the United States Geological Survey began voicing concern about Mount St. Helens, a long-dormant volcano northeast of Port...
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I just tossed my lens cap back in the ring after 20 years away from photography. I've got an interesting take on what's changed since I made my bones in the heyday of photo assignments, when magazines ruled the media.
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