David Seymour
Plates contributed
The 4 plates attributed to David Seymour in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0064 | Austria | Family and children | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0276 | Italy | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0304 | Germany | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0320 | Italy | Play, learning, and education | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Four plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0064 (Children A, Austria), photo-0276 (Ring Around the Rosy, Italy), photo-0304 (Relationships, Germany), photo-0320 (Learning, Italy). Born 1911 / died 1956 verbatim per src-magnum-david-seymour (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09; sidebar prints ‘b. 1911’ and ‘d. 1956’ on separate paragraphs). The November 20, 1911 birth and November 10, 1956 death day-month tokens are corroborated independently by src-wikipedia-david-seymour-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘(born Dawid Szymin; November 20, 1911 – November 10, 1956)’) AND src-britannica-david-seymour (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘born November 20, 1911’ and ‘November 10, 1956, near Suez Canal’). Birth name ‘David Szymin’ verbatim per src-magnum-david-seymour (‘David Szymin was born in 1911 in Warsaw’); the diacritic-faithful spelling ‘Dawid Szymin’ is per src-wikipedia-david-seymour-pointer. Died ‘near the Suez Canal’ (Britannica) / ‘near the Suez Canal to cover a prisoner exchange’ (Magnum); the El Qantara, Egypt town-level token is NOT corroborated by any source fetched in this round and is carried from prior notes only. The 1942 U.S. naturalization year is NOT corroborated by any fetched source this round; carried from prior notes. Known professionally as ‘Chim’. Magnum Photos co-founder (1947) verbatim per src-magnum-david-seymour: ‘In 1947, along with Cartier-Bresson, Capa, George Rodger and William Vandivert, he founded Magnum Photos.’ Became Magnum president after Capa’s death verbatim per src-magnum-david-seymour: ‘After Robert Capa’s death, he became the new president of Magnum.’ Spanish Civil War photography 1936–1938 verbatim per src-magnum-david-seymour: ‘Chim photographed the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1938.’ UNICEF ‘Children of War’ project commissioned 1948 verbatim per src-magnum-david-seymour. FoM inclusion verbatim per src-wikipedia-david-seymour-pointer: ‘Edward Steichen included his imagery, including his simple but eloquent picture of the worn hands of an older worker clutching a dip-pen to practice the letter ‘‘a’’, in MoMA’’s 1955 world-touring The Family of Man, seen by 9 million visitors.’ All four Seymour plates carry the Magnum + UNESCO commissioner combination per the MoMA Master Checklist.
External biography
https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/david-seymour/
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