he photographed ballerinas at the Bolshoi Ballet School (today
Chim’s education in the arts gave him a visual acuity that counterbalanced his empathetic eye
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Magnum Editions: Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1937 Framing:Unframed he photographed ballerinas at theAfter studying printing in Leipzig, and chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne in the 1930s, David Chim Seymour decided to stay on in Paris. When a family friend lent him a camera, he began work as a freelance photographer, forging connections in the industry that would eventually lead him to meet Henri Cartier Bresson and Robert Capa. In 1947, along with Cartier Bresson, Capa, George Rodger, and William Vandivert, he founded Magnum Photos. Pictured