Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist. - Roman Vishniac

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Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.

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About Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac (August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a renowned Russian-American photographer of poor Jews in Eastern European ghettos in the 1930s.

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The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

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