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David Seymour | Polish-American photojournalist | Britannica

Encyclopædia Britannica Editors Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2026 Tier 3 Accessed 2026-05-09 View source ↗

Citation

Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “David Seymour.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed 2026-05-09. https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Seymour

Tier justification

Tier 3 per CREDIBILITY.md — encyclopedia entries (Britannica, Grove Art) are explicitly Tier 3. Recorded here as one of three independent biographical anchors (alongside src-magnum-david-seymour at Tier 1 and src-wikipedia-david-seymour-pointer at Tier 3) for the dates and place-of-birth tokens in pher-david-seymour. The Britannica entry independently corroborates the November 20, 1911 birth and November 10, 1956 death day-month tokens.

Relevance

David Seymour has 4 plates in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-09). Britannica’s biographical anchor for pher-david-seymour matches the Magnum and Wikipedia fetches at the year and day-month levels.

Key excerpts / pages

Verbatim from the article (fetched 2026-05-09):

  • Header subtitle: “born American photojournalist who is best known for his empathetic pictures of people, especially children.” (The “born” here is the truncated lead from the page metadata; the full opening sentence as fetched continues into the dates and biographical narrative.)
  • Dates: “born November 20, 1911” and “November 10, 1956, near Suez Canal,”
  • Career: “Seymour studied graphic arts in Warsaw and in 1931 went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, where he became interested in photography.”

Notes

  • Perspective: encyclopedic / general-reference. Tier 3 per CREDIBILITY.md.
  • The Britannica entry corroborates the November 20, 1911 / November 10, 1956 day-month tokens that src-magnum-david-seymour (Tier 1) gives only at year-level resolution.
  • Britannica describes Seymour as a “Polish-American photojournalist” in the page title — the 1942 U.S. naturalization that is the basis for “American” is not given a precise year on this page.
  • The “near Suez Canal” location for his death is a wider geographic framing than Magnum’s “near the Suez Canal to cover a prisoner exchange”; the canonical site is El Qantara, Egypt (which is on the Suez Canal) per the existing pher-david-seymour row notes — that town-level token is NOT confirmed by the Britannica entry as fetched in this round.
  • The description “empathetic pictures of people, especially children” frames the curatorial fit with FoM’s children-section plates (photo-0064, photo-0276, photo-0320).
  • Britannica does NOT name The Family of Man on this page (verified by string-search 2026-05-09).
  • Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-09 via curl -fsSL https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Seymour (HTTP 200) into .scratch/britannica-david-seymour.html.
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