# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roman-vishniac
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:00:44.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roman-vishniac"
name: "Roman Vishniac"
slug: "roman-vishniac"
description: "Roman Vishniac 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."
tagline: "American photographer (1897–1990)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1897-08-19"
deathDate: "1990-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump