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ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897-1990) A portfolio entitled The Vanished World. 1936-38; printed 1977. Complete with 12 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 13¼x10¼ inches (33.7x26 cm.), the mounts 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), each with Vishniac's signature in ink on mount recto, and a label with the edition notation 1/50 and publisher's printed credit, on mount verso. Elephant folio-sized brown cloth clamshell box with mounted photographic reproduction; with a descriptive and illustrated pamphlet, signed by Vishniac, inserted in to the front inside pocket; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 25 COPIES (IN THIS SIZE). New York: Witkin-Berley Ltd., 1936-38; printed 1977
Provenance The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Entrance to the Ghetto, 1938 * One of the People of the Book, Warsaw, 1938 * The Face of Wisdom, Cracow, 1936 * Peddlers Transformed into Beggars by the Boycott, 1938 * Grandfather and Granddaughter, Lublin, 1937 * At the Open Fire, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938 * Jewish Peasant, Carpatho-Ukraine, 1937 * Heder, Slonim, Russia, 1938 * Three Student School, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938 * The Only Flowers of Her Youth, Warsaw, 1938 * One Room Apartment-Workshop, Warsaw, 1936 * Synagogue Court, Vilna, 1938
