Had a special kind of face.. A special kind of whisper and a special kind of footstep.. They were like hunted animals.
Roman Vishniac
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.
humans perfection details
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.
people
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.
purpose life mind
Concentration camp money.. It was a German sadism that invented it. Can you do anything with it? Yes, you can cry.
money
Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly
nature
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.
duty
Guiding force for visual interpretation.
force
In addition to his charisma and obvious talents, he was also known to possess what Howard Greenberg, Vishniac's longtime gallerist, identified as one of the bigger egos on the planet.
talent
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