Castilian Loyalists, Spanish Civil War
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.78 x 24.13 cm (7 x 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ben Shneiderman
Accession Number
2008.122.24
About the Artist
David Seymour (Chim)
David Seymour, born Dawid Szymin on November 20, 1911, in Warsaw, Poland, became one of the defining photojournalists of the twentieth century. Raised in a family of Yiddish and Hebrew publishers, he studied graphic arts in Leipzig before pursuing further studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he began his career as a freelance photographer in 1933. His work first appeared in the French magazine ...