Children's printing plant at Children's Republic, Budapest, Hungary, 1948

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.5 × 19.3 cm (7 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 25.72 × 20.32 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ben Shneiderman)

Accession Number

2015.19.4971

Artists / Makers

David Seymour (artist) American, born Poland, 1911 - 1956

Magnum Photos (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in blue ink underlined: SEYMOUR / STORY #42 / CHILDREN AT WORK / HUNGARY; top left: Negs at UNESCO, PARIS; top right in graphite: [underlined twice in black ink: Hungary]: Seym. children; upper right stamped in black ink: HISTORICAL / CHILDREN; upper right stamped in black ink inside rectangle: DAVID SEYMOUR-MAGNUM Photos; upper center in graphite: 4-126; center in green ink on diagonal: 115; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2003.44.16; by unknown hand, bottom right corner: PD 421

Provenance

David Seymour/Magnum Photos Inc., New York; Eileen Shneiderman, sister of the artist, 1956; Ben Shneiderman, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Shneiderman, Ben

Exhibition History

2006: Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 18 – June 4, 2006; Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, September 11 – December 10, 2006; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, January 20 – April 22, 2007