A Photographic Memory
Tom ZimberoffPHOTOGRAPHY IS THE VANTAGE POINT, NOT A READERSHIP CATEGORY. These are 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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Long Shot, Part IV (finale)
Getting to Know the General
My self-financed mission to Panama was a long-shot bet that paid off. From now on, I’d be playing with the house’s money.
Long Shot, Part III (of IV)
Splash!
There’s no place to hide in a helicopter. I thought I’d surprise everyone, grab a few shots of the general doing something besides posing like a dictator on a postage stamp, and get out—or be shoved out, maybe arrested—before takeo...
The Intentionality of Portraiture
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A version of this essay was first published in the British magazine Black+White Photography
All photographs ©2023 - 2026 Tom Zimberoff
In On Photography (1977), Susan Sontag famously likene...
Long Shot, Part II (of IV)
Stowaway On the Dictator’s Helicopter
As I got up to leave, a jolt of hubris—or maybe the whisky—got the better of me. Hand on the doorknob, I turned.
Long Shot, Part I (of IV)
I Hatched a Plan
It was the summer of 1976, America’s Bicentennial. The Panama Canal, already a long chapter in our flag-waving history, was about to retake center stage in U.S. foreign policy debate.
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