"I would ask him about the people in the pictures, and he would say 'these are our people.'" Abramorama has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Vishniac, about a photographer ...

Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel. Photographer Roman Vishniac is widely known and admired for his iconic images of pre-World War II life in Eastern ...

(RNS) The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hopes the world will look at photography of Roman Vishniac, and that some viewers will be able to identify people they knew in the faces he captured. Please ...

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Ever since the 1983 publication of Roman Vishniac’s “A Vanished World,” the Russian Jewish photographer (1897-1990) has been inextricably identified with the iconic book’s elegiac prewar imagery of ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

A few months back, Peter Rothstein ‘66 approached the library with an offer of six historic prints by Roman Vishniac, the iconic photographer of pre-World War II Jewish life in eastern Europe. An ...

How a photographer’s images of Jews were liberated from the lachrymose history he imposed upon them. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

The problems of veracity in what is termed “documentary photography” go well beyond the work of Roman Vishniac. Persuasive voices have cast doubt on the authenticity of other famous images of the ...

Roman Vishniac Rediscovered brings together four decades of work by the extraordinarily versatile and innovative Russian-born, Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) for the first time. Drawn ...

Roman Vishniac has been featured in articles for Hyperallergic, Blok Magazine and Aesthetica. The most recent article is Ansel Adams masterwork and selections from the Milton Esterow Collection anchor ...