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FILM | "Vishniac" | Sunday Matinee
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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 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
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