Magnum Editions: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Baltimore, USA, 1964 Jazz photographed by David ‘Chim’ Seymour

photographed by David ‘Chim’ Seymour at her palace on the Grand Canal

he founded Magnum Photos

The Mennonites

and the unpolished humor of everyday indulgence

Magnum Editions: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Baltimore, USA, 1964 Jazz photographed by David ‘Chim’ SeymourLeonard Freed was never interested in photographing celebrities; I was interested in people. Take the Martin Luther King Photo. He is an icon, people want to touch him, he is not a human being anymore, he is totally surrounded by the arms, he is protected. Look at the eyes. I was more interested in the people, in their hands, than I was in Martin Luther King himself. Freeds picture of Dr King shows him being greeted on his return to the U. S. after