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Roman Vishniac Quotes

1897–1990 Russia

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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You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

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

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.

Concentration camp money... It was a German sadism that invented it. Can you do anything with it? Yes, you can cry.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roman Vishniac (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.