Roman Vishniac
by Roman Vishniac
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"Dr. Roman Vishniac began taking photographs of microscopic life before he was ten years old. In the two-thirds of a century since then, his remarkable and exquisite photographs of that hidden world have earned him not only recognition as the world’s foremost photomicrographer but the abiding admiration and respect of his fellow scientists and photographers as well. The rich colour and abstract design of the miniature world captured by Dr. Vishniac are augmented here by other, equally show more outstanding photographs – his tender, compassionate pictures of Eastern European Jews in the years before World War II. In Warsaw, Cracow, Lublin, and other cities of Eastern Europe, Vishniac recorded the ways of a doomed people, whose centuries-old culture was wiped out in a decade by Polish and Nazi genocide. The ninety-eight photographs in this book twenty of which are in color, are divided almost equally between these two expressions of Roman Vishniac’s “reverence for life” – be if the life that is invisible, or the life that vanished. Essays by Eugene Kinkead and by Vishniac himself accompany the photographs." -- Book jacket. show lessTags
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- La Tentation d'Edouard
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