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Roman Vishniac
Roman Vishniac (; ; August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) 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.
Vishniac was a versatile photographer, an accomplished biologist, an
. "Roman Vishniac". Grossman Publishers, New York. 1974.
- Roman Vishniac remembered UJA Federation of Hamilton accessed April 18, 2010
- "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered". Edited by Maya Benton International Center of Photography, New York 2015, DelMonico Books
External links.
- Roman Vishniac Archive at International Center of Photography
- Interview with Roman's grandson
- The Howard Greenberg Gallery Includes gallery of 31 of Roman Vishniac's photographs.
- Every Vishniac Webpage of Ephraim Vishniac, Roman's grandson