Richard Zimmermann

I had worked as a shipping/traffic manager for over 38 years at Hader Industries in New Berlin. Retired on my birthday in 2019.

My passion since I was 14 has been photography of music and auto racing. Had a photo studio right out of high school as I went to school at MATC in photography. Left school after a year and a half because I thought I knew everything!! Wrong and regretful move!!

I had worked for the Bugle American newspaper as the music photographer in high school and it really got me into music photography which continues to this day. Have worked with Summerfest and was a photographer there for many years. Just celebrated my 50th year of photographing music and Summerfest with a CBS58 spot with Pauleen Le on a Sunday morning recently! Then we did a live at Summerfest spot again on CBS58 early one morning.

Just photographed Alice Cooper on the Summerfest grounds at the BMO Harris Pavilion and they will be the blog 10-18-21 at www.richzimmermann.com. That is my website that I have run for years and do a blog every other week on music or racing photography going on in my life. I have a great archive there of music photography in the Rock category and Racing in the Racing category. Check it out plus I still do commercial work so retirement doesn't really seem to exist after being retired for 2 years!!

Hooked up with Bruce Rits Gilbert for his book "John Prine-One Song At A Time" recently! Haven't talked since high school but he found my John Prine photos on line in a search. We talked and the book has some of my photos in it and the cover! Small world in how we connected!! Great book by Bruce you should pick up by the way if you like John Prine.

Check out the link below for a look at the CBS58 interview I did! Screen one has the first interview segment. Second screen down has the second segment. Then on the bottom is the link to the interview Pauleen Le did here in Brookfield in my man cave for the CBS58 Morning Show.

https://cbs58.com/news/iconic-images-from-summerfest-2021-from-rich-zimmermann

Enjoy and be safe all!

Only attended WFB for 1 1/2 years as we moved from Wauwatosa. Really didn't socialize much as I was toooo into the music scene and the Bugle American newspaper. I was photographing music three nights a week during high school!!

Met some great people like Pam White, Bruce Gilbert, Steve Cohen, Mark Wilson, Robin Rood and more! Stone Cohen and Leroy Airmaster made high school fun!