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David Seymour

1911 - 1956

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David Seymour (born Dawid Szymin; November 20, 1911 – November 10, 1956), or Chim (pronounced shim, an abbreviation of the surname "Szymin"), was a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Chim was known for his images from the Spanish Civil War, for co-founding Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and George Rodger, and for his project "Children of War" with UNICEF that captured the plight of children in the aftermath of World War II. He became president of Magnum after Capa's death in 1954 and held this post until his own death in 1956 by Egyptian machinegun fire in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Seymour has received more than 251,967 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. David Seymour is the 75th most popular journalist (down from 30th in 2019), the 931st most popular biography from Poland (down from 377th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Journalist.

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  • 250k

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  • 55.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, David Seymour ranks 75 out of 196. Before him are Marina Ovsyannikova, Kanno Sugako, Don McCullin, Martin Parr, Bernard Pivot, and Vladislav Listyev. After him are Dan Rather, Norbert Haug, Pierre Brossolette, Dmitry Kiselyov, Dith Pran, and Salima Ghezali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, David Seymour ranks 234. Before him are Romeu Pellicciari, Brigitte Horney, Mario Perazzolo, István Bibó, Grote Reber, and Gerhard Stöck. After him are Leen Vente, Paris Pişmiş, Gyula Lázár, Giuseppe Olmo, Reg Parnell, and Ján Cikker. Among people deceased in 1956, David Seymour ranks 144. Before him are Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Sergei Vasilenko, Jan Šrámek, E. T. Whittaker, Benjamin Glazer, and Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. After him are Albert Kluyver, Flora Sandes, Preston Tucker, Grigory Shajn, Louis Bromfield, and Louis Calhern.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, David Seymour ranks 931 out of 1,694. Before him are Heinz Hopf (1894), Arkadiusz Milik (1994), Gerhard Stöck (1911), Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), and Boris Chertok (1912). After him are Danuta Siedzikówna (1928), Julius Hübner (1806), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), Dariusz Wolski (1956), and Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1820).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Poland

Among journalists born in Poland, David Seymour ranks 1. 

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