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Book - CHIM - The Photographs of David Seymour 

David Seymour 

In this first retrospective of David Seymour's work, featuring over 150 images (many never before published), a haunting social portrait and critique of the turbulent events of the twentieth century emerges.

From France's Front Populaire and the Spanish civil war, to the devastating aftermath of World War II and the birth of Israel, David "Chim" Seymour captured many of the 20th century's most striking images. Indelible among Chim's most powerful photographs are his tender images of refugee children displaced or maimed by war, part of a three-year project for UNICEF. Chim's quiet, owlish charm... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Paris. 1947. 

David Seymour 1936

Paris. Circus Medrano. 1936. 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 1952

FRANCE. Paris. The photographers David SEYMOUR "Chim" (left)... 

David Seymour 1938

FRANCE. Paris. 1938. David "Chim" Seymour greeting Henri Cartier-Bresson.... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Paris. 1st arrondissement. Les Halles. 1936. 

David Seymour 1948

ITALY. Latium. Monte Cassino. 1948. 

Magnum Collection 1944

FRANCE. Paris. 27th August 1944. A party given in the home of... 

Burt Glinn 1956

USA. 1956. The photographer David SEYMOUR and the actress Marilyn... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Saint-Cloud. Outskirts of Paris. August 9, 1936. Pacifist... 

David Seymour 1935

FRANCE. Paris. 20th arrondissement. Pere Lachaise cemetery. Demonstration... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Paris. Pere Lachaise cemetery. Well-known contemporary... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Ile-de-France region. Seine-Saint-Denis department. Town... 

David Seymour 1934

FRANCE. Paris. May 1934. Demonstration in memory of those who... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Parisian suburbs. June 1936. National strike for the... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Paris. May 19th, 1935. Popular Front leaders together... 

David Seymour 1935

FRANCE. Paris. September 7th, 1935. A large crowd pays tribute... 

David Seymour 1935

FRANCE. Paris. 1935. Palais de la Mutualité. 

David Seymour 1935

FRANCE. Paris. Seated at table, left to right, are: Politician... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Parisian suburbs. June 1936. National strike for the... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. Parisian suburbs. National strike for the 40 hour week,... 

David Seymour 1936

FRANCE. June 1936. Striking workers in the courtyard of the Jacquenet... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Extremadura. Woman nursing a baby at a land reform meeting... 

David Seymour 1937

FRANCE. Paris. Spanish painter Pablo PICASSO in front of his... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Extremadura. A committee of peasants saluting, with their... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Battle of the Ebro river (July 25th to August 3rd 1938).... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. Safety drill to prepare for a possible toxic... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Murcia region. The port of Cartagena. The revolt of the... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. German brigades, members of the Thaelmann unit,... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. Arson of churches and monasteries was common... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Region of Extremadura. Militiaman or Republican Army soldier.... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. The first fighter planes sent over by the USSR start flying... 

David Seymour 1937

SPAIN. Amorebieta. 1937. Basque region. Outdoor Mass for Basque... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Basque country. Gulf of Biscaye. Bermeo harbour. January-February... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Industries in the Basque country are kept running by women... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. The Palacio de Liria (private home of the Duke... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Asturia region. Fighting in the trenches on the Oviedo... 

David Seymour 1938

SPAIN. Island of Minorca. Children take refuge in underground... 

David Seymour 1939

FRANCE. Pyrenees. At the French border, pass of Le Perthus. Spanish... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Law court of Barcelona. People's tribunal similar to those... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. Fearing Franquist reprisals, Basque and Catalan... 

David Seymour 1939

FRANCE. Pyrenees. Pass of Le Perthus. Spanish Republican troops... 

David Seymour 1939

David Seymour 1939

MEXICO. 1939. 

David Seymour 1947

West Germany. Essen. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Essen. 1947. Boy standing in cellar steps. 

David Seymour 1947

Hesse. Frankfurt. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Near Aachen. 1947. A young guard at the Siegfried Line,... 

David Seymour 1947

Germany. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Dachau. Crematorium ovens at the concentration camp.... 

David Seymour 1949

GERMANY. 1949. American soldier and friend visiting the Dachau... 

David Seymour 1947

Germany. Dachau.

David Seymour 1947

Germany. Dachau.

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. Brandenburg Gate. 

David Seymour 1947

Germany. Berlin.

David Seymour 1947

Germany. Essen. Illegitimate child of British soldier. 1947. 

David Seymour 1949

GERMANY Munich. Konigsplatz. Woman and one-legged man on stage... 

David Seymour 1948

AUSTRIA. Vienna. 1948. Boys play in bombed-out buildings in the... 

David Seymour 1949

GREECE. Oxia. Elefteria, the only child not evacuated from her... 

David Seymour 1949

GREECE. Oxia. 1947. Elefteria, the only child not evacuated from... 

David Seymour 1948

HUNGARY. Budapest. 1948. A state-run kindergarten which receives... 
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