Marcos Zimmermann was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina, in 1950. He did Film Studies at the Instituto
Nacional de
Cinematografía in Buenos Aires and started his professional career as a
photographer of feature films.  For several years he lived in Rome, where he
worked as a freelance photographer, holding several exhibitions in Europe, including
one in the legendary Delpire-Nouvelle Observateur Gallery of Robert
Delpire, together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Joseph Koudelka.Since
1989 he has worked on the publication of books of photographs which inquire
into the identity of his country. These include: "Patagonia, A Place in
the Wind"; "Río de la Plata, River of Dreams"; "Northern
Argentina, Land and Kin"; "Argentina, Nature for the Future",
among others. These books have made Marcos Zimmermann one of the most important
figures in Argentine photography at the moment.Photographs of his are included
in the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Collection for the Televisa Foundation in Mexico,
in the collection directed by John Szarkowski for the Paine Webber Group of New
York, in the art collection of the Huston Museum of Arts, in the Bank of
America art collection of New York, in the Cabinet des Estamps et de la
Photographie of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, in the Fundación Antorchas
of Buenos Aires as well as in many private collections. He has been awarded a
prize for the Best Argentine Art Book, as well as the Pirámide de Oro and
Leonardo prizes. In 1999 his work was included in the patrimony of the
Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts and the Modern Art Museum of the city of
Buenos Aires.He is currently working on three new books and has been invited
to put on an exhibition in the Shaday Gallery of Tokyo by the Japanese master
Eikoh Hosoe. The Folio Gallery of Alberta, Canada, is currently preparing a
monographic volume on his work.

 

EDUCATION

Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía, Buenos
Aires, Argentina



SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(Selection)

2009   Marcos Zimmermann, the eyes of land,
Instituto Crevantes, Tokyo, Japan

2009   Desnudos sudamericanos, Palais
de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008   Un
perro en el Paraíso, Vasari Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina


2007   Where Rivers Join the Sea, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston USA

2006   Marcos Zimmermann, fotografías 1989/1998, Fotogalería del
teatro San Martín,
           Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005   Plantas autóctonas de la Argentina, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2004   Norte Argentino, la tierra y la sangre, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo and the Museum of Kyushu
           Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

2001   Argentina, naturaleza para el futuro, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2000   Serie del yacaré, Centro Cultural Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1997   Río de la Plata, río de los sueños, Fotogalería del teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1995   Patagonia, un lugar en el viento, Centro de Promoción Argentino, Milan, Italy

1993   Patagonia, un lugar en el viento, Instituto de Cultura Brasil-Argentina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1990   Marcos Zimmermann, fotografías, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1984   Video Games, Museo de Telecomunicaciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1980   Viale Angelico, Il Fotogramma Gallery, Rome, Italy


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(Selection)

2002   Classic Beauty, Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA

2001   Fotografía Argentina, Photoespaña 2001, Madrid, Spain

1999   Myths, Dreams and Realities in Argentine Contemporary Photography,
           International Center of Photography (I.C.P), New York, USA

1998   La colección del Museo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1996   La colección del Museo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1995   Luz y Tiempo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo Collection for the Televisa Cultural Foundation A.C.,
           Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

1993   Canto a la Realidad- Fotografía Latinoamericana 1860-1993, Exhibition of photographs
           from the Erika Billeter’s book, Casa de las Americas, Madrid, Spain

1981   Dog Show, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, J. Henri Lartigue, Robert Frank,
           Josef Kudelka, Martine Frank, Eliot Erwit and others. Delpire-Nouvel Observateur Gallery,
           Paris, France.


BOOKS

1991   Patagonia, a Place in the Wind, Prologue by Adolfo Bioy Casares. (MZ Ediciones;
           Buenos Aires, Argentina)

1994   Río de la Plata, River of Dreams, (MZ Ediciones; Buenos Aires, Argentina)

1994   Siderca 40 years, (Techint; Buenos Aires , Argentina)

1998   Northern Argentina, Land and Kin, (MZ Ediciones; Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2001   Argentina, Nature for the Future, (Nature for the Future Foundation Editions; Argentina)

2004   Patagonia, Nature’s Last Frontier,Text by Tomás Eloy Martínez. (La Isla/ Blume Editions;
           Buenos Aires, Argentina/ Madrid, Spain)

2004   Under the Stars, images of the inner Argentina, Prologue by Hector Tizón. (Follio Gallery /
           Waterous and Co.; Calgary, Canada)

2005   Native Plants of Argentina, (Ediciones Lariviére; Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2007   Route 40, (Nature for the Future Foundation Editions; Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2008   Argentina, the landscape, (Ediciones Lariviére; Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2008   A Dog in Paradise, (MZ Ediciones; Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2009   South American Nudes, (Ediciones Lariviére; Buenos Aires, Argentina)


AWARDS

Premio Pirámide de Oro 1995 for Best Photographic Work of the Year

Fundación El Libro's Prize 1996 for Best Argentine Art Book

Leonardo Prize, National Mueum of Fine Arts (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes), Buenos Aires, Argentina


COLLECTIONS

Antorchas Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Bank of America Art Collection of New York, New York, NY USA

The Bank of America Collection, San Francisco, CA USA

Cabinet des Estamps et de la Photographie of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan, Curated by Eikoh Hosoe

Kyushu Sangyo Museum, Kyushu, Japan

Manuel Alvarez Bravo Collection for the Fundación Cultural Televisa, Mexico

Musèe de la Fotografie a Charleroi, Belgium

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paine Webber Group Photographic Collection, New York, NY USA, Directed by John Szarkowski

Pan American Cultural Exchange Foundation for the Photographic Collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, selected
by Anne Tucker, Houston, TX USA

Shadai Gallery Collection, Tokyo, Japan

Private collections in USA, Japan, Italy, France, Switzerland, Chile and Argentina