Exhibit | An Archive of Archives: Roman Vishniac's Exhibition History | New York, 1971-72
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An Archive of Archives: Roman Vishniac's Exhibition History | New York, 1971-72 shares some of Vishniac's iconic images documenting Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe between 1930 and 1940. The Magnes acquired the Roman Vishniac Archive (https://magnes.berkeley.edu/collections/museum/jewish-art/vishniac/) in 2018, thanks to an unprecedented gift by the late Mara Vishniac Kohn (1926-2018). The collection is comprised of thousands of original prints, negatives, and archival materials documenting the long international career of Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), a Russian-born modernist photographer most notable for documenting Eastern-European Jewish life in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac's work has been celebrated in exhibitions and publications since the 1940s. The gift represents one of the most important acquisitions made by The Magnes since its founding in 1962, and one of inestimable value to UC Berkeley for insight and research into 20th-century East Eur
