I met him in 1966, and discovered how undiscovered he was. -- Cornell Capa
"Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies" |
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.
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's two pogroms?
Roman VishniacNature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly
Roman VishniacThe 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 the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.
Roman VishniacYou can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.
Roman Vishniac[his scientific accomplishments] were overshadowed by the photographs he took of Jews in prewar Eastern Europe and in Nazi Berlin. -- Shepard, Richard
Roman VishniacThose images have proved to be an extraordinary record, made with forebodings of misfortune, that bring alive the flavor of the shtetl, of a Jewish peasant tending geese in the Carpathian Mountains, of tumbledown shacks in the Jewish quarter of Lublin, Poland, of Jewish patriarchs, in long caftans and wearing the furry hat called a shtreimel, trudging through the snow. -- Shepard, Richard
Roman Vishniac[His photography was a] guiding force for visual interpretation [of Schindler's List ].
Roman Vishniac