Tag: David ‘Chim’ Seymour
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Le Monde: Robert Capa’s War Chest
Link: Le Monde: Robert Capa’s War Chest | Le Journal de la Photographie They were thought to be lost forever. After an incredible journey, 4500 negatives from the legendary photojournalist Robert Capa and his friends Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour, resurfaced in New York in 2008
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A Retrospective of David Seymour: Chim
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…
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The Children of War in Chim’s Europe: A Second Look
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1 His assignment soon became a labor of love: he worked for six months and shot 257 rolls of film with his Rollei and Leica, accepting a token sum of $2,600 instead of his customary $100 a day fee. From the spring…
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Robert Capa's Spain, Inside a Suitcase – NYTimes.com
In “Images of War, Finally Unpacked,” Holland Cotter reviews an exhibition called “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography in New York, which documents wartime life in Spain between 1936 and 1939 through the eyes of three photographers — Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour (Chim) — in images no one seems…
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Spanish Civil War Trove at Center of Photography – NYTimes.com
Images of War, Finally Unpacked “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography features recently recovered images of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/design/24suitcase.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss After all these years I’ve found some answers to my question in an exhibition called “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center…
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New Photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour Are Found in a Suitcase
From NYTimes.com: When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign…
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Inside The Mexican Suitcase
From The New York Times: Robert Capa’s “Mexican Suitcase,” actually three flimsy cardboard valises containing thousands of negatives of pictures that Capa and others took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, has now been opened. Check it out here via dvafoto .