Book review

No finer example of Chim Seymour’s photography can be found than this wonderful picture from the set of Funny Face, with a very young Richard Avedon showing Fred Astaire the ropes.

One of the founders of Magnum, the apochryphal story has it that Chim and HC-B met on a tram in Paris, with HC-B asking innocently about the Leica around Chim’s neck. The rest is history.

Oh! yes, Astaire could dance and sing a bit, too!

Chim died aged 45, shot during the Suez crisis. The monograph is available from Amazon.