VISHNIAC, ROMAN

VISHNIAC, ROMAN
VISHNIAC, ROMAN (1897–1990), photographer. Born in St. Petersburg, Vishniac studied biology at Russian universities. When Berlin University under the Nazis refused to grant his Ph.D. in art, he left Germany and traveled throughout Poland, Austria, Holland, France, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, documenting with his camera the lives of the Jews in the cities and in the hinterlands. He was in Poland taking photographs of the Jewish community when Hitler's troops marched in. Vishniac was apprehended and sent to a concentration camp in Zbąszyń, Poland. He escaped to France but within a short time he was again incarcerated in another concentration camp, Camp du Richard in Clichy, France. Early in 1941 he managed to escape from Europe and went to the United States where he renewed his studies in medicine and began to use his camera for research in the biological sciences. He specialized in photomicroscopy, pioneering in the field of cytoplasmic circulation in microscopic algae as connected with photosynthesis, and photographing the formation of thrombosis in blood vessels. Vishniac immediately won widespread recognition in the field of scientific cinematography. His books include Polish Jews (1947) and Life of the Six Millions (1969) illustrating European Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Kinkead, Spider, Egg and Microcosm (1955), 157–244; Keppler, in: Modern Photography, 23 (Feb. 1959), 78–86. (Peter Pollack)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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