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A child from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia plays with a homemade doll. Her family, temporarily housed in the ruins of a military barracks, were among thousands of displaced persons in the region, Vienna, Austria

A child from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia plays with a homemade doll. Her family, temporarily housed in the ruins of a military barracks, were among thousands of displaced persons in the region, Vienna, Austria

David SeymourWW-1948-104211
1948·Gelatin silver print·Image/paper: 34.5 × 27 cm (13 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 1/16 in.)

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Year
1948
Dimensions
Image/paper: 34.5 × 27 cm (13 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 1/16 in.)

Artist

David Seymour
David Seymour

Photography

David Seymour, known professionally as Chim, was a Polish photographer whose work documented human displacement and social struggle across post-war Europe and the Middle East. Working primarily in black and white, he captured intimate portraits of refugees, orphans, and stateless populations with unflinching empathy, establishing photography as a vehicle for humanitarian witness. A founding member of Magnum Photos, Seymour's practice combined documentary rigor with formal compositional precision, treating each frame as both factual record and moral statement. His photographs have been exhibited at major institutions including MoMA. He was killed while covering the Suez Crisis in 1956.

Warsaw, Poland

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Year
1948
Dimensions
Image/paper: 34.5 × 27 cm (13 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 1/16 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1948-104211

Source

Source
aic
Status
verified

Artist

David Seymour

David Seymour

Photography

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