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Visit ICP's Roman Vishniac exhibition website.
Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) was one of the foremost documentary photographers of the twentieth century. Responsible for taking the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the world wars, his work spans early engagements with modernism in Weimar Berlin to his pioneering scientific research and color photomicroscopy in the 1950s and 60s.
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![[Boy with kindling in a basement dwelling, Krochmalna Street, Warsaw]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac_roman_mvk_533_2008_436187_displaysize.jpg)
![[Boy suffering from a toothache clutches a tattered schoolbook, Slonim]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-67-1974_c_447314_displaysize.jpg)
![[Hasidic man wearing a shtreimel (fur hat) on the Sabbath, Kazimierz, Krakow]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-75-1974_455274_displaysize.jpg)
![[Basement metal workshop and one-room apartment, Warsaw]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-86-1974_454775_displaysize.jpg)
![[Vendor selling apples on Gesia Street, one of the main thoroughfares in a Jewish district of Warsaw]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-112-1974_415042_displaysize.jpg)
![[Man purchasing herring, wrapped in newspaper, for a Sabbath meal, Mukacevo]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-163-1974_432735_displaysize.jpg)
![[Rabbi Baruch Rabinowitz with disciples, Mukacevo]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-177-1974_426126_displaysize.jpg)
![[Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, a farmer and tanner, Vysni Apsa, Carpathian Ruthenia]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-179-1974_429592_displaysize.jpg)
![[Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, a farmer and tanner, Vysni Apsa, Carpathian Ruthenia]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-180-1974_446606_displaysize.jpg)
![[Jewish schoolchildren, Mukacevo]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-193-1974_crop_446409_displaysize.jpg)
![[Antisemitic demonstration by members of poland’s right-wing nationalist party giving the nazi salute, Jewish district of Warsaw]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/v/i/s/h/vishniac-182-1974_413968_displaysize.jpg)
