Unesco

They Did Not Stop at Eboli Unesco

The analysis of UNESCO's audio-visual archives for their digitization has brought to light a forgotten album of thirty eight contact sheets and accompanying texts by Magnum photographer David "Chim" Seymour - a reportage commissioned by UNESCO in 1950 on the fight against illiteracy in southern Italy's Calabria region. A number of Seymour's photographs appeared in the March 1952 issue of the UNESCO Courier, accompanied by an article written by Carlo Levi, who gained worldwide fame with his 1945 memoir, Christ Stopped at Eboli.