Research Catalog

Title

Roman Vishniac rediscovered / Maya Benton.

Publication

New York : International Center of Photography ; Munich : DelMonico Books, Prestel, [2015].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vishniac, Roman, 1897-1990
• Benton, Maya
• International Center of Photography, host institution.
• Museum of Art (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), host institution.
• Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), host institution.
• Musée d'art juif, host institution.
• Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich, host institution.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston host institution.
• Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution.

Description

383 pages : numerous photos (partly color); 32 cm.

Summary

Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is a comprehensive reappraisal of Vishniac's total photographic output, from his early years in Berlin through the postwar period in America. The exhibition is drawn from the Roman Vishniac archive at ICP and serves as an introduction to this vast assemblage comprising more than 30,000 objects, including recently discovered vintage prints, rare moving film footage, contact sheets, personal correspondence, and exhibition prints made from his recently digitized negatives. Content: Over 220 framed objects including vintage gelatin silver and platinum prints and contemporary prints from Vishniac's original negatives, as well as over 150 ephemeral objects and 5 audiovisual elements.

Subject

• Vishniac, Roman, 1897-1990 > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Photographers > Biography > Exhibitions
• Jews > Europe, Eastern > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Documentary photography > Exhibitions
• Holocaust survivors > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Photomicrography
• Microphotography
• Europe, Eastern > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition, pictorial works

Note

• Exhibition catalog.
• On the occasion of an exhibition held at International Center of Photography, New York, January 18 - May 5, 2013; Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, April 3 - August 24, 2014; Musee d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme, Paris, September 15 - January 25, 2015; Muzeum Historii Zydow Polskich POLIN, Warsaw, May 8 - August 31, 2015; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, February 11 - May 30, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9783791353951 (cl.)

LCCN

9783791353951

OCLC

• 923871044
• SCSB-10522240

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library