Feast of San Domenico, Cocullo
Catalogue
- Year
- 1951
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 35 × 23.4 cm (13 13/16 × 9 1/4 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- David Seymour
Artist
Photography
David Seymour, known professionally as Chim, was a Polish photographer whose work documented human displacement and social struggle across post-war Europe and the Middle East. Working primarily in black and white, he captured intimate portraits of refugees, orphans, and stateless populations with unflinching empathy, establishing photography as a vehicle for humanitarian witness. A founding member of Magnum Photos, Seymour's practice combined documentary rigor with formal compositional precision, treating each frame as both factual record and moral statement. His photographs have been exhibited at major institutions including MoMA. He was killed while covering the Suez Crisis in 1956.
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Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- David Seymour
- Year
- 1951
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 35 × 23.4 cm (13 13/16 × 9 1/4 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1951-104220
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified