FILM | "Vishniac" | Sunday Matinee
Yiddish Book Center

 

 

Vishniac

April 21, 2024, 2:00 p.m. ET

 

Roman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe from 1935 through 1938,on assignment to photograph Jewish life. Less than a decade later these communities would be wiped out and Vishniac’s iconic photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world.

Through his photographs, we see Jewish life – in Eastern European shtetls and in Weimar-era Berlin – and witness the Nazi rise to power. After the war, his documentation continued with photographs of Berlin in ruins and Jewish children in Displaced Persons camps.

Vishniac was also a respected scientist who made considerable contributions in the field ofmicroscopic photography. His “Living Biology” series, funded by the National Science

Foundation, were some of the first films depicting life through a microscope and became a staple in the 1960s and 1970s in classrooms across the United States. His pioneering
microscopy transformed the nature of science photography.


VISHNIAC delves into the person and story behind the photos as it frames Vishniac’s legacy as a key modernist photographer and preserver of memory. Through his stunning images, VISHNIAC introduces new audiences to a lost world that is quickly fading from our grasp.

 

This event will take place at the Yiddish Book Center.

Date: Sunday, April 21, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Address:
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
United States

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