David Seymour (photographer)
Citation
David Seymour (photographer). Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-09 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour_(photographer).
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Recorded here for the photographer biographical anchor that supports pher-david-seymour in data/photographers.csv and for the verbatim FoM-inclusion sentence which is one of the few sources that explicitly names The Family of Man on a Seymour-focused page (in addition to the MoMA Master Checklist’s plate-level credits).
Relevance
David Seymour has 4 plates in The Family of Man (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09). The biographical-anchor data on this page corroborates the Magnum and Britannica fetches.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim from the article (fetched 2026-05-09):
- Birth name and dates: “David Seymour (born Dawid Szymin; November 20, 1911 – November 10, 1956), or Chim (pronounced shim, an abbreviation of the surname ‘Szymin’), was a Polish photographer and photojournalist.”
- Magnum and ‘Children of War’: “Chim was known for his images from the Spanish Civil War, for co-founding Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and George Rodger, and for his project ‘Children of War’ with UNICEF that captured the plight of children in the aftermath of World War II.”
- Death and Magnum presidency: “He became president of Magnum after Capa’s death in 1954 and held this post until his own death in 1956 by Egyptian machinegun fire in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.”
- FoM inclusion (verbatim): “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.”
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.mdWikipedia is treated as a pointer source — the November 20, 1911 birth and November 10, 1956 death day-month tokens, the ‘Dawid Szymin’ birth-name diacritic-faithful spelling, and the MoMA-FoM citation should be promoted to Tier 1/2 against Inge Bondi’s Chim: The Photographs of David Seymour (2005) or the ICP Chim archive holdings before being cited as authoritative. - The Wikipedia article’s footnote 9 cites the 1955 FoM catalog (Steichen et al.) as the corroborating source for the FoM inclusion claim. The catalog itself is in our repo as
src-steichen-1955-catalog-introductionand at the plate level viasrc-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist. - The “worn hands of an older worker clutching a dip-pen to practice the letter ‘a’” plate identification is a specific detail that, if confirmed against the Master Checklist, would resolve to one of Seymour’s “Learning”-section plates (photo-0320 in our CSV, set in Italy, is the most likely candidate but this is NOT verified in this round).
- The MoMA-FoM-attendance figure “seen by 9 million visitors” is a Wikipedia-level summary number; the canonical “9 million” total is also documented at Tier 1 elsewhere in the repo.
- Cross-references:
src-magnum-david-seymour(in repo, fetched 2026-05-09),src-britannica-david-seymour(in repo, fetched 2026-05-09),src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist(in repo).