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Outros nomes: VISHNIAC, Roman
Data de nascimento: 1897-08-19
Data de falecimento: 1990-01-22
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: Russia
USA
Local de nascimento: Pavlovsk, Russia
Local de falecimento: New York, New York, USA
Educação: University of Berlin
Ocupações: photographer
biologist
art historian
Relações: Kohn, Mara Vishniac (daughter)
Organizações: American Academy of Arts and Letters (American Honorary, 1984)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425: Roman Vishniac (August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a renowned Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. A complete archive of his work now rests at the International Center of Photography. Vishniac was an extremely diverse photographer, an accomplished biologist and a knowledgeable collector and teacher of art history. Throughout his life, he made significant scientific contributions to photomicroscopy and time-lapse photography. Vishniac was very interested in history, especially that of his ancestors. In turn, he was strongly tied to his Jewish roots and was a Zionist later in life.Roman Vishniac won international acclaim for his photography: his pictures from the shtetlach and Jewish ghettos, celebrity portraits, and images of microscopic biology. He is known for his book A Vanished World, published in 1983, which was one of the first such pictorial documentations of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe from that period, and also for his great humanism, respect and awe for life, sentiments that can be seen in all aspects of his work. [from Wikipedia]

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Un Mondo Scomparso por Roman Vishniac

Un mondo scomparso. Un'antologia di alcune eccezionali e quasi introvabili foto che testimoniano la vita delle comunità ebraiche nell'Europa centro-orientale negli anni '36-'37-'38. "Perché ho fatto questo? Un apparecchio fotografico nascosto per ricordare come viveva. (fonte: Google Books)

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MemorialeSardoShoah | 5 outras críticas | May 16, 2020 |

Un mondo scomparso por Roman Vishniac

Gli ebrei di Trieste erano 6.000. Sono 600. I triestini furono tra i più solerti nelle segnalazioni alle autorità dopo l'approvazione delle leggi razziali del '38.

L'anno scorso, all'ingresso del Museo della Comunità ebraica di Trieste nella bellissima via del Monte fui accolto da un suadentissimo levantinissimo sguardo di un giovane che mi dava la buonasera con la sua suadentissima voce... E Samuele che prende l'autobus numero 33 mi guarda sempre intimorito da sotto la sua kippah...(so il suo nome perché l'ho sentito chiamare da un suo amico) L'occhio dell'uomo in copertina è LO STESSO del rigattiere che mi vendeva i libri delle superiori nella zona del ghetto (quello che è rimasto dopo lo sventramento fascista)...
Guardare tutti questi sguardi in queste splendide foto mi ha fatto pensare a loro, gli ebrei della mia vita nella mia città.… (mais)

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downisthenewup | 5 outras críticas | Aug 17, 2017 |

Children of a Vanished World por Mara Vishniac Kohn

My heart went out to these children, caught apparently unawares in their daily life. The introduction explains the circumstances, and the attempts of the photographer to get American interest in saving the children from the coming Holocaust. At the same time, he himself was living in Berlin and at great risk.
The paper is heavy weight, high quality. The B&W photos are sharp, which amazes me, given the conditions under which Vishniac worked. Examining the surrounding settings gives a perspective on a variety of living conditions.
I bought this book to give to a Jewish friend, but found it so touching I may have to keep it myself...or buy the latest publication of his work "Roman Vishniak Rediscovered";… (mais)

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juniperSun | Aug 4, 2016 |

Vanished World, A por Roman Vishniac

NO OF PAGES: 180 SUB CAT I: European Jews SUB CAT II: Holocaust SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Roman Vishniac, a survivor of the holocaust, somehow preserved pre-holocaust black-and-white photos of his family and community, although he was unable to save them. During his journeys he took over sixteen thousand photographs. All but two thousand were confiscated and, presumably, destroyed. This book is all that is left - a memory of a more innocent time. It contains less than ten percent of the photographs in my possession, but I hope it enables the reader to envision a time and place that are worthy of remembering.NOTES: SUBTITLE: With a foreword by Elie Wiesel… (mais)

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BeitHallel | 5 outras críticas | Feb 18, 2011 |

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