Over the past year, I’ve been researching John’s commercial work with advertising scholar Dr. Ed Timke from Duke University.  As a fun way to summarize some of our initial research, Ed and I gave a talk in November 2021, “Stories Behind the Lens: Advertising Photography in the Mad Men Era,” for Stanford & Duke alumni. Check out our zoom presentation below. Also, be on the lookout for our upcoming article in the Advertising & Society Quarterly (April 2022) that offers a comprehensive look at John’s advertising career.  It may come as a surprise to people who only know my father’s photojournalistic work. 

Linda Zimmerman