A Retrospective of David Seymour: Chim

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Chim: A Vivid Retrospective of Europe

David Seymour, known as Chim, didn’t shine in the spotlight like his more famous Magnum colleagues. But a retrospective opening this week shows him to have been a master chronicler of 20th century Europe.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/chim-a-vivid-retrospective-of-europe/

Chim — born Dawid Syzmin and later known as David Seymour — was a quiet photographer, the type who never seems to get his artistic due, but who remains an indispensable part of history. He documented moments that slipped somewhere between the iconic and the commonplace, made vivid by their unexpected familiarity.