Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, communities that even then seemed threatened - not by destruction and extermination, which no one fores[...]
Drawn from the International Center of Photography's vast holdings of work by Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), this 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 [...]