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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