They used the school's darkroom late at night to avoid crowding at other times of the day, and they called themselves the "Midnight to Dawn Club".
Both Zimbel and Winogrand later both studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research on scholarships in 1951.
On Steichen's advice, he had a stint as a photographer with the US Army and spent two years in Europe during the restoration period following World War II.
[10] Zimbel never sold any of these images and packed them away until 1976, whereupon he printed them and began to show them in solo exhibitions.
[11][12] In 1971, Zimbel and his family moved to the small community of Argyle Shore, Queens County, Prince Edward Island where they raised animals for the next 10 years at a farm they called "Bona Fide Farm".