George Zimbel, a photographer who championed ordinary people, but whose two best-known subjects — Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy — died on Jan. 9 in Montreal. He was 93.

Mr. Zimbel captured people living their lives — a sailor reading in his lower bunk on a submarine, a small boy dwarfed by a Great Dane, a little girl playing hopscotch in the street, a baby pulling on a doctor’s stethoscope. In a more famous scene, he was on Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan during the filming of a scene for Billy Wilder’s “The Seven Year Itch” when a fan beneath a subway grating blew Marilyn Monroe’s white dress upward, creating one of her best-known images. Similarly known is his photograph of John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline during a ticket-tape parade in Manhattan during the 1960 presidential campaign.