David Seymour (Chim)

This book covers the full range of Seymour's career, from early photos of unrest in France for European and American magazines to his UNICEF-sponsored study of children in postwar Europe, which attracted worldwide attention. Among his many photographic essays are the outstanding portraits of personalities such as Bernard Berenson, who were treated with the same intensity as anonymous sitters. A founding member of the Magnum photo agency, Seymour was President at the time of his tragic death while photographing Suez in 1956. This definitive monograph on Seymour is an elegant introduction to one of the key figures in twentieth-century photography.