Description
Product ID: | 9780714842769 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | 55s |
Title: | David Seymour (Chim) |
Authors: | Author: Tom Beck |
Page Count: | 128 |
Subjects: | Individual photographers, Individual photographers |
Description: | An overview of the career of the Polish-born American photojournalist. An accessible monograph on the work of David Seymour (1911–56), the Polish-born American photojournalist, who used his camera to record the political upheavals and social change of the 1930s. Known by his pseudonym, Chim, Seymour was a practitioner of concerned photography and his images provide an eloquent testimony to the strength and vulnerability of humankind. He became known for his sensitive documentation of war and its devastating effects on its victims, especially children, and his documentation of the Spanish Civil War established him as one of history’s finest photojournalists |
Imprint Name: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2005-01-01 |