Roman Vishniac Quotes
August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990
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...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?
Testament to a Lost People 
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More Roman Vishniac Quotes
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— Testament to a Lost People
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 learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.
Roman Vishniac— Testament to a Lost People
Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly
Roman Vishniac— ICP Library of Photographers. Roman Vishniac. Grossman Publishers, New York. 1974. pg 42.
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 the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.
Roman Vishniac— Deschin, Jacob. "Nature as it is". New York Times (1857-Current file); Feb 3, 1952; Proquest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2002) pg. X14
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.
Roman Vishniac— Shepard, Richard F. "Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies". New York Times (1859-Current file); Jan 23, 1990; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1951 - 2002) pg. D23.
Those 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— "Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies"
I met him in 1966, and discovered how undiscovered he was. -- Cornell Capa
Roman Vishniac— "Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies"
[His photography was a] guiding force for visual interpretation [of Schindler's List ].
Roman Vishniac— Loshitzky, Yosefa (1997). Spielberg's Holocaust. Indiana University Press. p. 166. ISBN 0253210984, 9780253210982.
