{"id":514,"date":"2007-07-15T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/07\/15\/david-seymour\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:47:18","slug":"david-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/07\/15\/david-seymour\/","title":{"rendered":"David Seymour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Book review<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No finer example of Chim Seymour&#8217;s photography can be found than this wonderful picture from the set of <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/01\/25\/at-the-movies\/ target=_blank>Funny Face<\/a>, with a very young Richard Avedon showing Fred Astaire the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s neck.  The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/AvedonAstaire.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oh! yes, Astaire could dance and sing a bit, too!<\/p>\n<p>Chim died aged 45, shot during the Suez crisis. The <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Seymour-Chim-Monographs-Beck\/dp\/0714842761\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/105-0573871-5025217?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1184530332&#038;sr=1-1 tarfet=_blank>monograph<\/a> is available from Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review No finer example of Chim Seymour&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/07\/15\/david-seymour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Seymour<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}