Tag: Roman Vishniac

  • A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac – NYTimes.com

    A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac – NYTimes.com

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    A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac (Published 2010) He was the foremost photographer of prewar Eastern European Jewish life. But how real was the image he created? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04shtetl-t.html the collection is also a gold mine. Not only do the unpublished photographs offer a kaleidoscopic view of prewar Jewish life — women in modern dress…

  • Roman Vishniac Rediscovered: A Great Photographer’s Lost World Revealed

    Roman Vishniac Rediscovered: A Great Photographer’s Lost World Revealed

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/15/roman-vishniac-rediscovered-a-great-photographers-lost-world-revealed/#1 At this late date, in an age when seemingly every significant photograph of the past 150 years has been anthologized and analyzed, how many major 20th-century photographers can possibly remain under the radar of both the general public and photography aficionados?…