Grandfather and granddaught, Warsaw
(c. 1935-1938); printed 1977
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Measurements
- 26.2 × 26.4 cm (image and sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Warsaw, Poland
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on support c.: Roman Vishniac
- Accession Number
- PH110-1978
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1978
© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Roman Vishniac’s photographs of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are tragically prophetic. Working between 1935 and 1939, Vishniac used concealed cameras to take thousands of photographs of life in the ghettoes of Russia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Lithuania.
