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Children of a Vanished World
Roman Vishniac
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Description for Children of a Vanished World
Hardback. 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. This book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children. Num Pages: 156 pages, 69 duotones. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJ; AJB; AJCP; HBG; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 950.
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 foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of Children of a Vanished World , seventy of those photographs are available, thirty-six ... Read more
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 foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of Children of a Vanished World , seventy of those photographs are available, thirty-six ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
156
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520221871
SKU
V9780520221871
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99-12
About Roman Vishniac
Mara Vishniac Kohn is an educational therapist who has spent most of her professional life in private special education. Miriam Hartman Flacks, a Brooklyn-born native Yiddish speaker, seeks to preserve the rich tradition of Yiddish folksongs.
Reviews for Children of a Vanished World
The gentle moments Vishniac's camera captured are haunting.
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