Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews - A Pictorial Record

Buy this book on-line

Roman Vishniac : Polish Jews - A Pictorial Record

Schoken Books, NY, 1976

1976. SIGNED HARDCOVER, 5th Printing. --'POLISH JEWS - A PICTORIAL RECORD'-- by photographer ROMAN VISHNIAC. With (31) b&w photographs of Eastern European Jews in the 1930s. Vishniac was hired by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to photograph Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, before this epoch of Jewish existence with its intense religious quality ended (in the crematories of Nazi Germany).  Vishniac wrote: "these pictures were made without letting the subjects know of the presence of a camera. They represent real life completely unposed. And so today they have become documents of a lost epoch of a lost people." Dust jacket has a small chip at the top, lightly mottled on the rear.  Overall very nice and presents very well.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

Inscribed by Author(s)

Roman Vishniac : Polish Jews - A Pictorial Record is listed for sale on Bibliophile Bookbase by Peter Austern & Co./ Brooklyn Books.

Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line.

Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Roman Vishniac : Polish Jews - A Pictorial Record. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book.

Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, livres d'occasion, livres illustrées, incunabula and first editions.

Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints.