PARISPhotographers David Seymour Chim left and Robert Capa

PARIS—Photographers David Seymour, "Chim, " (left) and Robert Capa, 1952.

David "Chim" Seymour greeting Henri Cartier-Bresson.

FRANCE. Paris. Anti-semitic campaign poster of the National Socialist Party says "Above all, bread for the real Frenchmen".

David Seymour FRANCE. Paris. The Tuileries Gardens. Richard AVEDON, fashion photographer and technical director, advising Fred ASTAIRE on his role as a photographer

FRANCE. North of France. 1935. Young miners.

Romain Rolland Like Barbusse, Romain Rolland was an acclaimed writer, pacifist, and antifascist. Winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize for literature and a regular correspondent with the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Sigmund Freud, Rolland was a towering intellectual figure whom many saw as the symbolic grandfather of the Front Populaire. Chim made this portrait of the distinguished writer, nearing age seventy, on the balcony of his childhood home in Burgundy. The unusual composition—closely cropped, offcenter, and shot from above—suggests Rolland's intellectual restlessness, an effect echoed by the author's piercing eyes and serious mien.

Parisian suburb. June 1936

FRANCE. Ile-de-France region. Seine-Saint-Denis department. Town of Saint-Ouen. National strike for the 40 -hour week, paid holidays, and collective agreements. Workers organise a sit-in at their steel factory. June 1936.

Pablo Picasso in front of Guernica, Paris In late May 1937, during a brief hiatus from his war coverage, Chim collaborated with Henri Cartier-Bresson on an issue of Regards dedicated to the Paris World's Fair. Chim made this wellknown portrait of Pablo Picasso standing before Guernica shortly after the painting was unveiled in the fair's Spanish Pavilion. Picasso's anti-Franco screed was motivated by the Nazi air force's merciless pummeling of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26. Over the course of three hours, German planes dropped an unprecedented 100, 000 pounds of high explosive and incendiary bombs that leveled the historic town and caused 1, 600 civilian casualties. The usually apolitical Picasso made no bones about what lay behind his work during this period: "I am expressing my horror of the military caste which is now plunging Spain into an ocean of misery and death. " Chim's portrait depicts Picasso as both an artist and a Republican partisan. The composition projects Picasso into the painting and suggests the artist's identification with the immense, horrorstricken figure above him. Picasso's crossed arms underscore his defiance, as does the ominous shadow that falls across half his face.

Gerda Taro and Robert Capa Gerda Taro (real name Gerta Pohorylle) was a war photographer, and the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa. Taro is regarded as the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war and to die while doing so. Gerta Pohorylle was born in 1910, in Stuttgart, into a middle-class Jewish Galician family. In 1929 the family moved to Leipzig, just prior to the beginning of Nazi Germany. Taro opposed the Nazi Party, joining leftist groups. In 1933, she was arrested and detained for distributing anti-Nazi propaganda. Eventually, the entire Pohorylle household was forced to leave Nazi Germany toward different destinations. Taro would not see her family again.

Escaping the anti-Semitism of Hitler's Germany, Pohorylle moved to Paris in 1934. In 1935, she met the photojournalist Endre Friedmann, a Hungarian Jew, becoming his personal assistant and learning photography. They fell in love. Pohorylle began to work for as a picture editor. Gerda Taro and Robert Capa in Paris. Early 1936.

In 1936, Pohorylle received her first photojournalist credential. Then, she and Friedmann devised a plan. Both took news photographs, but these were sold as the work of the non-existent American photographer Robert Capa, which was a convenient name overcoming the increasing political intolerance prevailing in Europe and belonging in the lucrative American market. The secret did not last long, but Friedman kept the more commercial name "Capa" for his own name, while Pohorylle adopted the professional name of "Gerda Taro“. The two worked together to cover the events surrounding the coming to power of the Popular Front in 1930 s France.

“ The mexican suitcase “ Spanish Civil War When the Spanish Civil War broke out (1936), Gerda Taro travelled to Barcelona, Spain, to cover the events with Capa and David "Chim" Seymour. They covered the war together at northeastern Aragon and at the southern Córdoba. Gerda Taro gallery, Segovia, may 1937.

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