Roman Vishniac Rediscovered

383 pp. Publisher's full cloth in dust jacket. Very clean and unused copy. No ownership marks. B&w photography throughout. Published to accompany the exhibition in 2013-2016. The first comprehensive monograph on Vishniac. 9783791353951

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Emphasizing Roman Vishniac's prodigious talents as one of the great documentary photographers of the 20th century, this volume presents the full range of his artistic genius. Drawn from the International Center of Photography's
vast holdings of work by Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), this
generously illustrated and expansive volume offers a new and
profound consideration of this key modernist photographer. In
addition to featuring Vishniac's best-known work--the iconic
images of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust--
this publication also introduces many previously unpublished
photographs spanning more than six decades of Vishniac's
work. These include newly discovered images of prewar Berlin,
rare film footage from rural Jewish communities in Carpatheina
Ruthania, documentation of postwar ruins and Displaced
Persons' camps, and vivid coverage of Jewish life in America
in the 1940s and '50s. Essays by world-renowned scholars of
photography, Jewish history and culture address these newfound
images and consider them in the context of modernist
tendencies in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s; the rise of Nazi power
in Germany and Eastern Europe; the uses of social documentary
photography for relief organizations; the experiences of exile,
displacement, and assimilation; and the impact of Vishniac's
pioneering scientific research in color photomicroscopy in the
1950s and '60s. This first retrospective monograph on Roman
Vishniac offers many new perspectives on the work and career
of this important photographer, positioning him as one of the
great modernists and social documentary photographers of the
last century.

Product Info

ISBN: 3791353950

ISBN-13: 9783791353951

Publisher: DelMonico Books / Prestel 2015

Year: 2015

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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