David Seymour
David Robert Seymour (born November 20, 1911 in Warsaw as David Robert Szymin , † November 10, 1956 in El Qantara , Egypt ), also known under his pseudonym Chim , was a Polish photographer and founding member of the Magnum photo agency .
Life
Seymour grew up in Poland and Russia . From 1929 he studied art and photography at the Academy for Graphic Arts in Leipzig (now the University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig ). In 1931 he went to Paris , where he completed his training at the Sorbonne in 1933 . He went into business for himself as a photographer and from 1934 had regular publications in Regards .
In Paris, Seymour met Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson . As a staunch anti-fascist , he went to Spain in 1936 and photographed the horrors of the civil war .
In 1939 Seymour returned to Paris before traveling to Mexico on the Sinaia . He settled in New York down and the US Army serving in World War II to 1945 as a photo reconnaissance aircraft and interpreters . After the war, he traveled for the UNESCO in Czechoslovakia , according to Poland , Germany , Greece and Italy to document the war on the children to the effects. In 1949 he published the book Children of Europe .
In 1947 Seymour founded the photo agency Magnum Photos together with Robert Capa , Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger .
After Robert Capa's death in 1954, he assumed the presidency of Magnum. Seymour, along with the French photographer Jean Roy , was shot dead by Egyptian soldiers crossing the front line during the Suez Crisis when he was about to report on a prisoner exchange on the Suez Canal on November 10, 1956.
Web links
- Literature by and about David Seymour in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of David Seymour alias Chim
- Photographer David Seymour alias Chim at Museum icp
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Seymour- "Chim", Paragraphic Books 1966, 23 pp., 19
- ↑ David Seymour in: Die Pressefotografie, Astrid Jacobi 2006, 132 pages, page 92
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seymour, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seymour, David Robert (full name); Chim (pseudonym); Szymin; Robert, David (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1956 |
| Place of death | El Qantara , Egypt |