Roman Vishniac Quotes

• I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.

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  Niños, Recuerdos, Personas

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• 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.

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  Photography, Thinking, Mind

  "Nature as it is" by Jacob Deschin, New York Times, February 3, 1952.

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• Todo lo que ha sido hecho por manos humanas parece terrible bajo una lupa: tosco, áspero y asimétrico. Pero en la naturaleza todo es hermoso. Y cuantos más aumentos utilizamos, más detalles aparecen, perfectamente formados, como un sinfín de cajas dentro de cajas.

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  Hands, Lovely, Looks

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• Incluso antes de los campos de concentración, sentí que era mi deber para con mis antepasados preservar un mundo que podría dejar de existir.

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  World, Might, Duty

  "Testament to a Lost People". www.nytimes.com. 1983.

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• A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera.

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  Photography, Men, Spy

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

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  Want, Microscopes, Creator

  "Roman Vishniac (ICP library of photographers)" by Roman Vishniac, p. 42, 1974.

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

  Roman Vishniac

  Animal, Bottles, Biology

  "Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies" by Richard F. Shepard, New York Times, January 23, 1990.

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• Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?

  Roman Vishniac

  Two, Dozen, Littles

  "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

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• The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.

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  People, Holocaust, Saint

  "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

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