Roman Vishniac
Photographer, Visual Artist
1897 – 1990
Who was Roman Vishniac?
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 complete archive of his work now rests at the International Center of Photography.
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.
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- Born
- Aug 19, 1897
Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg - Spouses
- Edith Ernst
(1947 - 1990) - Luta Bagg
(1918 - 1946)
- Edith Ernst
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Employment
- Case Western Reserve University
- Died
- Jan 22, 1990
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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