Porter Nat Gutman, Warsaw

Roman Vishniac

1935–1938

Photograph of man with mustache and hat wearing torn clothing with hands on hips, looking at camera.
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Roman Vishniac

1897–1990

Born into a wealthy, Russian-speaking family that settled in Berlin after the Bolshevik Revolution, the photographer Roman Vishniac traveled extensively in Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s, photographing pious and impoverished Jews. The images he created, which were widely distributed in the postwar period, shaped popular perceptions of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. He came to America in 1940 and after the war worked extensively in photomicroscopy, building on his earlier training in biology, zoology, and endocrinology.

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