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David (Chim) Seymour, CHIM rediscovered / CHIM retrouvé, Photography - °CLAIR Galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Image credit David Seymour: Barcelona. Refugee center, 1936 © Chim Estate/Magnum Photos

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°CLAIR Galerie

1, rue de la Tour

06570 Saint-Paul-de-Vence

France

T +33 664 757 789

Site http://www.clair.me

Thurday-Tuesday 11:00-13:00 15:00-19:00

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David (Chim) Seymour

CHIM rediscovered / CHIM retrouvé
°CLAIR Galerie, Photography, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Saturday December 22, 2012 - Sunday January 27, 2013 - Event ended.

David Seymour, better known under CHIM, is a legend amongst photographers. Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a Jewish family of publishers, CHIM was still called David Szymin. At the time he wanted to become a piano player. His encounter with the history of his era and with photography turned him into one of the most sensitive eyewitnesses of his time.

°Clair Galerie, Saint-Paul de Vence will show - as a counterpart to the retrospective offered by ICP/New York - a selection of vintage photographs by David Seymour-CHIM from December 22, 2012 until January 11, 2013.

As the co-founder of the renowned agency Magnum, he observed and photographed major conflicts radically taking sides for the victims' point of view. He was killed in 1956 while covering the Suez war. His friend Henri Cartier-Bresson once said about Seymour: "Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethescope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable".

To rediscover CHIM means to observe his humanistic oeuvre as an essential historical testimony, a way to come to an understanding of the world. It also shows how the photographer has been using his art and instrument as a means of resilience.

"We are only trying to tell a story. Let the 17th-century painters worry about the effects. We've got to tell it now, let the news in, show the hungry face, the broken land, anything so that those who are comfortable may be moved a little". — David Seymour - CHIM

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