CHIM DAVID SEYMOUR

1911-1956

Born on the 20th November, in Warsaw, Poland.

His birth name is David Szmin, later called David Seymour, and profissionally known as Chim.

In 1914 emmigrated with his parents to Odessa and, after the War, they returned to Warsaw.

He studied Graphic Arts in Leipzig.

Only a few years later he went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne.

Chim covered the Spanish Civil War working as a freelance journalist.

He is one of the great photojournalists of the first half of the XX Century and also the pioneer of the political photojournalism.

Photo taken by Elliott Erwitt

"The Spanish civil War", 1936-1938

"After the World War II"

"Epilogue - the sinal War", 1956

 "Children of Europe", 1947-1949

 "Civil War refugees", Greece, 1948

Photo of the book "Children of Europe", 1949

"The Jewish State", 1951-1956

"Little boy apprentice to shoomakers shop", Naples, 1948

 "14 July, let's dance", 1952, Paris

"Naples", 1952

"The Jewish State". 1956

"Children playing among the wreckage of the D-Day invasion", Normandy, France, 1947

"In Paris", periode 1934-1936

"Children of Europe", 1947-1949