Roman Vishniac - Publications

Publications

Year Title Notes Source
1947 Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record Polish Jews showcased 31 images of the life and character of these people "stressing the spiritual side of the subjects' lives and it did not include any of the pictures took to emphasize the economic struggle in which the Jews were engaged."; Essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel.
1947 *Die Farshvundene Velt: Idishe shtet, Idishe mentshn.

*The Vanished World: Jewish Cities, Jewish People

Edited by Raphael Abramovitch; title, text and captions in English and Yiddish; includes photographs by R. Vishniac, A. Kacyzna, M. Kipnis and others. First edition of the earliest and most comprehensive graphic pictorial history of Jewish life at the beginning of the Nazi era.
1955 Spider, Egg and Microcosm: Three Men and Three Worlds of Science Published by Eugene Kinkead (publisher); The three men were Petrunkevitch, Romanoff and Vishniac
1956 This Living Earth (Nature Program) Published by N. Doubleday
1957 Mushrooms (Nature Program) Prepared with the cooperation of the National Audubon Society; Published by N. Doubleday
1959 Living Earth Drawings by Louise Katz; Subject: Soil biology
1969 A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1971 Building Blocks of Life: Proteins, Vitamins, and Hormones Seen Through the Microscope Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
1972 The Concerned Photographer 2 Grossman Publishers; Edited by Cornell Capa, text by Michael Edelson; In cooperation with ICP
1974 Roman Vishniac of the ICP Library of Photographers
1983 A Vanished World Foreword by Elie Wiesel; this version is significantly different from the original version of 1947, being completely redone and with many fewer photographs. This is probably the best-known collection of Vishniac's and has independently contributed most to his popularity.
1985 Roman Vishniac by Darilyn Rowan, published at Arizona State University School of Art.
1993 To Give them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac Biographical note by Mara Vishniac Kohn, edited by Marion Wiesel
1993 Roman Vishniac: The Platinum Prints of the International Center of Photography
1999 Children of a Vanished World Edited by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Hartman Flacks
2005 Roman Vishniac's Berlin Edited by James Howard Fraser, Mara Vishniac Kohn and Aubrey Pomerance for Jewish Museum Berlin
For a more complete list of publications by and about Roman Vishniac, see pages 94 and 95 of Roman Vishniac published by ICP and the Library of Congress archive.

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