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 137,492 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Roman Vishniac is the 96th most popular photographer (down from 90th in 2019), the 1,602nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,545th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Photographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Roman Vishniac ranks 96 out of 148. Before him are Spencer Tunick, Karl Struss, Joel-Peter Witkin, Willy Ronis, Henry Peach Robinson, and Mary Ellen Mark. After him are Bob Guccione, David Douglas Duncan, Mario Testino, Alexander Gardner, Hedi Slimane, and Erwin Olaf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Roman Vishniac ranks 215. Before him are Camillo Berneri, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Conrad Nagel, Moe Howard, Johannes Winkler, and Jimmie Rodgers. After him are Max Newman, Jacob Bjerknes, Choʻlpon, Neil Ritchie, Diego Abad de Santillán, and Erik Malmberg. Among people deceased in 1990, Roman Vishniac ranks 185. Before him are Willy Vandersteen, Katalin Karády, Erna Berger, David White, Juliet Berto, and Ivar Lo-Johansson. After him are Giorgio Ghezzi, Paco Godia, Georges de Rham, Laurence J. Peter, Gerhard Schrader, and Turan Dursun.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Roman Vishniac ranks 1,602 out of 3,761. Before him are Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875), Lev Atamanov (1905), Nikolay Bauman (1873), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Veikko Huhtanen (1919), and Leonid Filatov (1946). After him are Maria Itkina (1932), Viktor Tsaryov (1931), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), Eugene Kaspersky (1965), Dmitry Rogozin (1963), and Illarion Pryanishnikov (1840).

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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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