Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) was a Russian Jewish photographer who documented the life of Eastern European Jewry before it was swept away by the Holocaust. This is a set of untitled photos from that time.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) has a Vishniac Archive.

Summer fun

From National Photo.

 Bathing beach, 1920s
["well, we were having fun till some perv came along and took our picture..."]

 

 Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued an order that bathing suits 

at the Washington bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee. 1922

 

 Girls from Keiths at Arlington Beach, 1925

 

 Group winners, bathing beach, June 1922

 

 Icing off at the tee. 1920s

 

 Lansburg bathing girls, 1922

 

 Life saving device, 1922

 

 Mah-Jong at bathing beach, 1924

 

 Mary Claphet, Irene & Ella Sherer, Mary Facenire on the beach, 1920

 

 Models, Washington fashion show, 1924

 

Two women in bathing costumes drying their hair

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was a French photographer who liked taking pictures of people in movement.

 Anna La Pradvina, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 1911

 

 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris 1911

 

 Bella

 

 Bibi and her son, 1923

[Bibi was the photographer's wife]

 

 Bibi and the actress Louise Lagrange, Deauville, 1922

 

 Bibi in Normandy, 1921

 

 Bibi, Arlette and Irène. Storm in Cannes. Cannes, May 1929

 

 Bichonnade Leaping

 

 Bois de Boulogne, 1910

 

Girls in a car

Josef Jindřich Šechtl

Josef Jindřich Šechtl was a Czech who took some chilling photographs of Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

 Berlin during the Olympic Games, 1936

 

 Calvary in Miličín 1934

 

 Countryard of u Dvou slunců, Tábor, 1935

 

 Josef Jinřich Šechtl with son, 1935

 

 Tábor, 1931 (son Josef at first day of new school at Maredův Vrch)

 

 Trip to Horky, Pintovka, Tábor, 1939

 

 Žižka Square, Tábor, 1942

  

Kuratorium exercises, Tábor, 1939–1945

Giorgio Sommer

Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914) was an important 19th century Italian photographer.

 Amalfi Marina (Napoli)

 Boys eating pancakes

 

 Capri Marina

 

 Cascata di Caserta

 

Bootblack and pickpocket

 

 Delousing

 

 Donkey driver in Naples

 

 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1872

 

 Macaroni eaters, Naples, 1880

 

 Macaroni Factory

 

Naples - coast