Untitled
c. 1950
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View on museum website →Medium
2 gelatin silver prints mounted on graph paper with graphite, ink, and marker
Dimensions
image (upper left): 18.2 × 12.3 cm (7 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.) image (lower right): 8.9 × 5.5 cm (3 1/2 × 2 3/16 in.) overall: 27.5 × 18.3 cm (10 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Eileen and Michael Cohen
Accession Number
2011.93.42
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 ...