VISHNIAC, Roman.
Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record.
New York: Shocken Books , 1947.
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First edition of this classic work that Edward Steichen wrote, "among photography's finest documents of a time and place". Quarto. Original black cloth. Signed by Vishniac on the half title page. Near fine in a worn dust jacket.
Vishniac's photography has been exhibited worldwide, for which he has been described as "one of the world's foremost photomicrographers" (McDarrah, 511). Roman Vishniac was hired in the 1930's by the Joint Distribution Committee to travel through Eastern Europe documenting people groups under assault in Germany. "These pictures," Vishniac wrote, "were made without letting the subjects know of the presence of a camera. They represent real life completely unposed. And so today they have become documents of a lost epoch of a lost people."
Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record.
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