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PHOTOGRAPHER

Roman Vishniac

1897 - 1990

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Roman Vishniac (; Russian: Рома́н Соломо́нович Вишня́к; August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. A major archive of his work was housed at the International Center of Photography until 2018, when Vishniac's daughter, Mara Vishniac Kohn, donated it to The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley. Vishniac was a versatile photographer, an accomplished biologist, an art collector and teacher of art history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roman Vishniac has received more than 130,863 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Roman Vishniac is the 90th most popular photographer (down from 84th in 2019), the 1,549th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,446th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Photographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Roman Vishniac ranks 90 out of 105. Before him are Alexandre Michon, Adolfo Farsari, William Eggleston, Gaudenzio Marconi, Mario Testino, and David Douglas Duncan. After him are František Drtikol, Nick Ut, Lucien Clergue, Garry Winogrand, F. Holland Day, and William P. Gottlieb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Roman Vishniac ranks 204. Before him are Henri Frankfort, Neil Ritchie, Pixinguinha, Erik Malmberg, Rosa Ponselle, and Isaías Medina Angarita. After him are Blind Willie Johnson, Miguel Fleta, Ulises Poirier, Max Newman, Pedro Vallana, and Betty Compson. Among people deceased in 1990, Roman Vishniac ranks 185. Before him are Léopold Anoul, Paco Godia, Manly P. Hall, Araken Patusca, Nadia Gamal, and Jack Gilford. After him are Mário Pinto de Andrade, Germán Suárez Flamerich, Larry O'Brien, Irving Wallace, Walter Sedlmayr, and Katalin Karády.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Roman Vishniac ranks 1,549 out of 3,262. Before him are Valeri Popenchenko (1937), Yuri Bondarev (1924), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Vatslav Vorovsky (1871), Alexander Khalifman (1966), and Klara Rumyanova (1929). After him are Vera Karalli (1889), Alexander Popov (1971), Sergey Obraztsov (1901), Alexander Karpinsky (1846), Johannes Virolainen (1914), and Yuri Semin (1947).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Russia

Among photographers born in Russia, Roman Vishniac ranks 2. Before him are Alexander Rodchenko (1891).

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