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.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 11
Recalcitrance, Berlin, 1926 by Roman Vishniac
1942 portrait of Albert Einstein by Roman Vishniac. This is one of the best-known examples of his 1940s portraiture work. Taken in Princeton, NJ.
Roman and Edith Vishniac, 1977
Vishniac, c. 1981 by Daniel J. Krellenstein
Entrance to the Ghetto, Kraków, Poland, 1937 by Roman Vishniac. Gelatin silver print. This photograph is often associated with Vishniac's work in Central Europe.
The Only Flowers of her Youth, Warsaw, 1938 by Roman Vishniac, one of his most famous
The exhibition of Roman Vishniac's photos at Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum, 2014In their orbit 1
Artists born in the 1890s 6
About this person
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.
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1990 · aged 92
Written about in
18 languages
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.