Auction 66 · Lot 310
Ghetto Street, Cracow. * The Only Flowers of her Youth. * A Distinguished Talmudist. Kazimierz. * Hiding from the Endecja (Polish National Democratic Party).
- Estimate
- $2,000–$3,000
- Hammer price
- $4,750
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
VISHNIAC, ROMAN.
Place
circa 1935, (printed later)
Description
Four silver gelatin prints. Each bearing on verso copyright stamp of Roman Vishniac, 1971. Titles taken from Vishniac.
summary
Russian-American photographer and biologist, Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) is best known for capturing on film the culture of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe immediately prior to the Holocaust.
His archive presently resides in the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York.
Each: 9 x 7.5 inches.
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