"WE WENT BACK: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM EUROPE 1933-1956 BY CHIM" par Cynthia YOUNG. Editions International Center of Photography, New York en collaboration avec Delmonico Books. 2013. Petit in-4, couverture toilée saumon sous jaquette photo. 304 pages. Textes en anglais de Carole Naggar, Cynthia Young, Roger Cohen, avant-propos de Mark Robins, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, 78 vignettes in-texte et 163 planches hors texte, par Chim (David Seymour). Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme à l'I.C.P. de New York, du 18 Janvier au 05 Mai 2013.

 

"Chim was a photographer's photographer, one of the most respected photojournalists of his day. He published regularly in the Parisian press during the 1930s, even before his close friends and collaborators Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Although war formed the backdrop of much of his reportage, Chim was an astute observer of twentieth-century European politics, social life, and culture, from the beginnings of the antifascist struggle to the rebuilding of countries ravaged by World War II. A founder of Magnum Photos in 1947, Chim was particularly drawn to the struggle for workers' rights, countries in transition, and postwar resistance and survival. His most celebrated reportages include the rise of the Popular Front in prewar France; the Spanish Civil War, which he covered alongside Capa and Gerda Taro; the postwar reconstruction of Europe; and the birth of Israel. In each of his images, he combined rare intellectual acumen and emotional intelligence. Born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw in 1911, Chim, who published under the name David Seymour after World War II, arrived in Paris in 1932 as a young student at the Sorbonne and quickly became a working photographer. He left France in 1939 for New York, and in 1947 he went back to Europe to once again work as a foreign correspondent for the international news magazines. In 1956, he was killed while covering the Suez Crisis…"

 

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