Title & Author:

Roman Vishniac rediscovered / Maya Benton.

Publication:

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

Description:

383 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered was on view at the International Center of Photography January 18 to May 5, 2013. The exhibition then went to Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 19, 2013 to January 4 2014; Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands April 3 to August 24 2014 ; Musee d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme in Paris, France September 17 2014 to January 25 2015; Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland May 5 to August 31 2015; Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas September 27, 2015 to January 3, 2016 ; Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California February 11, 2016 to May 30, 2016.
Essays by Norman Barker, Maya Benton, Michael Berkowitz, Judith Cohen, Hasia Diner, Daniella Doron, Ute Eskildsen, Laura Hobson Faure, Atina Grossman, J. Hoberman, Steven Hoelscher, Marion Kaplan, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Mara Vishniac Kohn, Yue Ma, Deborah Dash Moore, Avinoam Patt, Eddy Portnoy, Jeff Shandler, David Shneer, Herb Tam, Laura Wexler, and Bernadette van Woerkom.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the International Center of Photography January 18 to May 5, 2013. The exhibition then went to Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 19, 2013 to January 4, 2014; Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands April 3 to August 24, 2014 ; Musee d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme in Paris, France, September 17, 2014 to January 25, 2015; Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland May 5 to August 31, 2015; Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas September 27, 2015 to January 3, 2016 ; Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California, February 11, 2016 to May 30, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
Director's foreword / Mark Lubell -- Preface / Mara Vishniac Kohn -- Introduction / Maya Benton -- Reconsidering Roman Vishniac -- Vishniac in Warsaw, 2015 / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- A different kind of Holocaust photographer / Judith Cohen -- What Vishniac saw: another look / Laura Wexler -- Berlin, 1920-38 -- The strolling observer / Ute Eskildsen -- Russian Jews and photography / Michael Berkowitz -- Russian emigre in Berlin / David Shneer -- Jewish life in Nazi Germany / Marion Kaplan -- Remembering Berlin / Mara Vishniac Kohn -- Plates -- Eastern Europe, ca. 1935-38 -- Vishniac on assignment / Maya Benton -- A melamed lights his cigarette: Vishniac's Carpathian outtakes / J. Hoberman -- Vishniac and the Yiddish press / Eddy Portnoy -- Behold a vanished world / Jeffrey Shandler -- Plates -- Exile and return to Europe, 1938-40, and 1947 -- A radically different style: Jewish pioneers in the Dutch polder / Bernadette van Woerkom -- Taking a closer look at Vishniac in prewar France / Laura Hobson Faure -- Vishniac and the surviving remnant / Atina Grossmann and Avinoam Patt -- Lives reborn: Vishniac's photographs of displaced pesons camps in France / Daniella Doron -- A landscape of ruins: Roman Vishniac's return to postwar Berlin / Steven Hoelscher -- Plates -- America, 1941-90 -- Roman Vishniac's New York / Deborah Dash Moore -- The Jewish child in New York / Hasia Diner -- Vishniac's Chinatown / Yue Ma and Herb Tam -- From the shtetl to burlesque / Eddy Portnoy -- The curious microscopist / Norman Barker -- Plates -- Glossary of organizations and societies -- Map: Vishniac in Eastern Europe -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.
Dust jacket.

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.

Resources:
Publisher description
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

9783791353951 (hardback)
3791353950 (hardback)

Subject:

Vishniac, Roman, 1897-1990 Exhibitions.
Vishniac, Roman, 1897-1990.
Vishniac, Roman 1897-1990
Photographers Biography Exhibitions.
Jews Europe, Eastern Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Documentary photography Exhibitions.
Holocaust survivors Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Photomicrography.
Microphotography.
Photographes Biographies Expositions.
Juifs Europe de l'Est Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Photographie documentaire Expositions.
Survivants de l'Holocauste Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Photomicrographie.
Microphotographie.
microphotography.
Documentary photography.
Holocaust survivors.
Jews.
Photographers.
Social conditions.
Dokumentarfotografie
Ostjuden
Jews Europe, Eastern Pictorial works.
Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Europe de l'Est Conditions sociales 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Eastern Europe.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Vishniac, Roman, 1897-1990, artist, photographer.
Benton, Maya, editor, curator.
Vishniac, Roman, 1897-1990.
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.
International Center of Photography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291084
Call No.: BIB 234411
Status: Available