Roman Vishniac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Roman Vishniac

American photographer

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1897

Place of Birth: Pavlovsk, Russia

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1990

Profession: photographer, zoologist, university teacher, art historian

Nationality: United States, Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Roman Vishniac

  • Roman Vishniac (; Russian: ????´? ??????´????? ?????´?; August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.
  • A major archive of his work was housed at the International Center of Photography until 2018, when Vishniac's daughter, Mara Vishniac Kohn, donated it to The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley.Vishniac was a versatile photographer, an accomplished biologist, an art collector and teacher of art history.
  • He also made significant scientific contributions to photomicroscopy and time-lapse photography.
  • Vishniac was very interested in history, especially that of his ancestors, and strongly attached to his Jewish roots; he was a Zionist later in life.Roman Vishniac won international acclaim for his photos of shtetlach and Jewish ghettos, celebrity portraits, and microscopic biology.
  • His book A Vanished World, published in 1983, made him famous and is one of the most detailed pictorial documentations of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe in the 1930s.
  • Vishniac was also remembered for his humanism and respect for life, sentiments that can be seen in all aspects of his work. In 2013, Vishniac's daughter Mara (Vishniac) Kohn donated to the International Center of Photography the images and accompanying documents comprising ICP's "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered" travelling exhibition. In October, 2018, Kohn donated the Vishniac archive of an estimated 30,000 items, including photo negatives, prints, documents and other memorabilia that had been housed at ICP to the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, a unit of the University of California at Berkeley's library system.

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