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The Vanished World
Object Name
Vitrine: 08.05
Date1947
Label Text
In 1947, the Yiddish newspaper The Forward (Forverts) and its publisher, The Forward Association, issued The Vanished World (Di Farshvundene Velt), a densely illustrated volume on Jewish life in eastern Europe by the pioneering photographers Alter Kacyzne, Menachem Kipnis, Vishniac, and others.
Edited by Raphael Abramovitch, the photographs were culled from rotogravure features that had appeared in the Sunday Art Section of The Forward. More than 550 of these photographs—150 by Vishniac—were reproduced in The Vanished World. This was the most extensive publication of Vishniac’s images for four decades, until the seminal (and similarly titled) book A Vanished World (1983). When the Abramovitch book was published, the images were already shrouded in loss, made all the more poignant by the fact that Kacyzne had been murdered in 1941, Kipnis had died of an aneurism in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, and only Vishniac had survived and was able to circulate and promote his work in the years after the war.
In 1947, the Yiddish newspaper The Forward (Forverts) and its publisher, The Forward Association, issued The Vanished World (Di Farshvundene Velt), a densely illustrated volume on Jewish life in eastern Europe by the pioneering photographers Alter Kacyzne, Menachem Kipnis, Vishniac, and others.
Edited by Raphael Abramovitch, the photographs were culled from rotogravure features that had appeared in the Sunday Art Section of The Forward. More than 550 of these photographs—150 by Vishniac—were reproduced in The Vanished World. This was the most extensive publication of Vishniac’s images for four decades, until the seminal (and similarly titled) book A Vanished World (1983). When the Abramovitch book was published, the images were already shrouded in loss, made all the more poignant by the fact that Kacyzne had been murdered in 1941, Kipnis had died of an aneurism in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, and only Vishniac had survived and was able to circulate and promote his work in the years after the war.
Medium
Offset lithography; book
Dimensions
Overall (open): 8 x 21 1/4 in. (20.3 x 54 cm)
Location
place taken
Credit Line
Roman Vishniac Archive, International Center of Photography
Accession NumberRVA.2012.1
Copyright
© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography
For all uses of photographs by Roman Vishniac contact ICP at: vishniac_archive@icp.org.
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