Roman Vishniac
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Roman Vishniac ['vɪʃniæk] (Russian: Роман Вишняк; August 19 1897 – January 22 1990) is a Russian-American photographer, a type of artist who takes pictures, and a biologist, a type of scientist that studies living things. He is well known for taking pictures of Jewish culture in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Many of these pictures are in his book, A Vanished World, published in 1983.