Today we celebrate the birthday of Roman Vishniac #RomanVishniac
I watched an excellent documentary about #romanvishniac and was inspired to buy this equally excellent #photobook. Amazing backstory and work. More than 14,000 negatives were stolen by the Nazi and from those he saved these are among the best. Highly recommend!
#RomanVishniac arrived in #NYC in 1940; he turned his lens on the community life of #Jewish refugees. In '47 he went to #Europe on assignment from the JDC, UJA & The Forward to document relief efforts in Jewish displaced persons camps
Photo: Holocaust survivors in a DP camp in Picardy, France, 1947
#RomanVishniac, born to a wealthy Russian-Jewish family, was one of the foremost #documentary #photographers of the 20th century; he took many widely recognized photos of #Jewish life in #EasternEurope between #WWI & #WW2.
#Photo A grandfather and granddaughter discussing the ongoing struggle.
#Quote from #RomanVishniac
#Photography #Monochrome #RomanVishniac Cookie, the Chimpanzee at #BronxZoo
"The Sight of Scents. Two double page spreads of polarized light photomicrographs of crystal precipitates from perfume samples. Editorial project produced by #RomanVishniac while in his mid-eighties. Town and Country Magazine, Vol. 139, No. 9, November 1985."