Edited by James Howard Fraser, Mara Vishniac Kohn and Aubrey Pomerance for the Jewish Museum Berlin
132 pages, hardcover
21 x 22,5 cm
over 90 duotone photographs
24,90 euros
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Roman Vishniac's Berlin
Roman Vishniac's Berlin
The photographer Roman Vishniac, famous for his pictures of "A Vanished World," lived in Berlin from 1920 to 1939. In these twenty years he captured everyday life in the German capital, people in the steets, Berlin characters, friends and family as well as Jewish institutions.
This book presents Roman Vishniac's Berlin pictures for the first time, the unkonwn early work of one of the master photographers of the 20th century. The photographs are accompanied by Mara Vishniac Kohn's personal memoir of her father and her childhood in Berlin.
The photographer Roman Vishniac, famous for his pictures of "A Vanished World," lived in Berlin from 1920 to 1939. In these twenty years he captured everyday life in the German capital, people in the steets, Berlin characters, friends and family as well as Jewish institutions.
This book presents Roman Vishniac's Berlin pictures for the first time, the unkonwn early work of one of the master photographers of the 20th century. The photographs are accompanied by Mara Vishniac Kohn's personal memoir of her father and her childhood in Berlin.
