What’s Weird and Wonderful?
By LENORE SKENAZY
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Last week the International Center of Photography opened a comprehensive exhibition of the work of Roman Vishniac. “Vishniac created the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars,” explains the ICP. “Yet only a fraction of his work was published during his lifetime, most notably in A Vanished World (1983). Over the course of his career, Vishniac witnessed the sweeping artistic and photographic innovation of Weimar Berlin, the ominous rise to Nazi power in Germany, the final years of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and immigrant life in America during and after the war.
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|Last week the International Center of Photography opened a comprehensive exhibition of the work of Roman Vishniac. “Vishniac created the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars,” explains the ICP. “Yet only a fraction of his work was published during his lifetime, most notably in A Vanished World (1983). Over the course of his career, Vishniac witnessed the sweeping artistic and photographic innovation of Weimar Berlin, the ominous rise to Nazi power in Germany, the final years of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and immigrant life in America during and after the war.
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