[Leica] Chim (David Seymour) exhibit

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Chim's photos are always worth a look at, even if it is "again".

Peter Dzwig

Oliver Bryk wrote:
> Tonight was the opening of the exhibit "Chim: The Photography of David
> Seymour" at the De Young Museum in San Francisco www.famsf.org . IMO it has
> much to recommend it for photographers. Some of the square prints are in
> color - mostly posed - and some in b&w. In addition to the selection of
> photographic prints there are mementos such as identification cards and a
> tattered customs declaration from 1947, stating that he had bought the
> following items in the USA and will bring them back from Europe: two
> Rolleiflex cameras, one Leica 143145 (which would make it a Leica III Model
> F), a 9cm Elmar, a 5cm Summar, a 3.5cm Elmar, a 5cm Sonnar, and Norwood and
> Weston exposure meters. Seymour was a co-founder of Magnum. He was killed 
> in
> 1954.
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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