MAYA BENTON
ROMAN VISHNIAC REDISCOVERED
International Center of Photography | New York
DelMonico Books • Prestel I Munich London New York ONTENTS
director's foreword
Mark Lubell
preface 14 RECONSIDERING ROMAN VISHNIAC Mara Vishmac Kohn
17 Vishniac in Warsaw, 2015 INTRODUCTION Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Maya Benton 23 A Different Kind ofHolocaust Photograph Judith Cohen
31 What Vishniac Saw: Another Look
Laura Wexler
40 BERLIN, 1920-38
43 The Strolling Observer Ute Eskildsen
51 Russian Jews and Photography Michael Berkowitz
55 Russian Emigre in Berlin David Shneer
61 Jewish Life in Nazi Germany Marion Kaplan
65 Remembering Berlin Mara Vishniac Kohn Interview 106 EASTERN EUROPE, CA. 1935-38 272 AMERICA, 1941-90
109 Vishniac on Assignment 275 Roman Vishniac's New York Maya Benton Deborah Dash Moore
121 A Melamed Lights His Cigarette: 283 The Jewish Child in New York Vishniac's Carpathian Outtakes Hasia Diner J. Hoberman
289 Vishniac's Chinatown
129 Vishniac and the Yiddish Press Yue Ma and Herb Tam
Eddy Portnoy 293 From the Shtetl to Burlesque
135 Behold a Vanished World Eddy Portnoy Jeffrey Shandler 297 The Curious Microscopist
142 PLATES Norman Barker
305 PLATES
190 EXILE AND RETURN TO EUROPE,
1938-40, AND 1947
354 GLOSSARY OF ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES 193 A Radically Different Style: Jewish Pioneers
in the Dutch Polder 357 MAP: VISHNIAC IN EASTERN EUROPE
Bernadette van Woerkom
358 CHRONOLOGY
199 Taking a Closer Look at Vishniac in Prewar France
Laura Hobson Faure 370 BIBLIOGRAPHY
205 Vishniac and the Surviving Remnant 378 contributors Atina Grossmann and Avinoam Patt
380 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 211 Lives Reborn: Vishniac's Photographs ofDisplaced Persons Camps in France Daniella Doron
213 A Landscape ofRuins: Roman Vishniac's
Return to Postwar Berlin
Steven Hoelscher
223 PLATES