Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.
I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the wome… - Roman Vishniac
I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the wome…
- Roman Vishniac
Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly - Roman Vishniac
Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms. - Roman Vishniac
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.
Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What'… - Roman Vishniac
Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What'…
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with… - Roman Vishniac
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with…
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist. - Roman Vishniac
A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibi… - Roman Vishniac
A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibi…
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the… - Roman Vishniac
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the…
The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you lea… - Roman Vishniac
The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you lea…
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