Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac. Untitled (Friends of Photography) including one fold-out

including one fold-out

illustrating how the camera was envisioned not merely as a passive recording tool

through the socially conscious photojournalism of the mid-20th century

Both books are in stiff illustrated wraps in very good condition

Though not a photographer himself

Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac. Untitled (Friends of Photography) including one fold-outWith a Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. [A remarkable book on the poorer Jews of Europe just before the Holocaust. While living in Berlin in the 1930s, Roman Vishniac (18971990) was commissioned by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to make photographs of impoverished Jews in Central and Eastern Europe that could be used to promote charitable donations. About 2,000 of an estimated 16,000 negatives survived World