Thursday 31 January 2013

Chim

From the New York times :

CHIM, a k a David Seymour, was one of the stars of the heroic mid-20th-century golden age of photojournalism! "Chim focused not on combat and carnage but on people behind the scenes of the theaters of war, the nonmilitary folk going about their business and doing their best to survive".











Chim claimed that children are "invariably photogenic and easy to sentimentalize". Part of the beauty of children is their obliviousness to history. The children digging in the sand next to a hulking piece of war refuse  in Normandy (1947) or playing in a bombed building in Germany (1947)— for a moment at least — in the bubble of their own fantasy.

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