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Roman Vishniac
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Andrew A. Skolnick, 1977, Roman Vishniac, Black & white image, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/47404
Roman Vishniac


Born: 1897 - Russia, Parlosk
Died: 1990
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
His early work was in the ghettos of Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s. After he immigrated to the USA in 1940 he did portrait and medical photography.

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Yousuf Karsh, 1971, 22 Feb (taken) 1988, Sept (before, print), Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/63690
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Andrew A. Skolnick, 1977, Roman and Edith Vishniac, Black & white image, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/47405
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Andrew A. Skolnick, 1977, Roman Vishniac, Black & white image, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/47404
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Unidentified photographer, 1981 (ca), Roman Vishniac, Colour image, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/47406
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Produced a heroic photographic record of the final hours of pre-holocaust Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the late 1930s At great personal risk, traveled through Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Latvia, compiling over 16,000 images (of which 2000 remain) of Jewish village life soon to be eradicated by Hitler. His poetic images, bravely captured with a hidden camera, are a most poignant reminder of photography's gift of memory. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he pursued a remarkable career in the biological sciences and was a renowned pioneer in photomicrography and time-lapse cinematography.
 
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Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
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