Portraits of Life and Loss: The Holocaust and Beyond
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“Portraits of Life and Loss” pairs the work of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky, two photographers who wandered the same areas some six decades apart. Vishniac explored Poland’s Jewish villages of the 1930s and 1940s, documenting communities in peril during an era of growing anti-Semitism. Gusky’s late-20th-century visits to the same country took him to the sites where those communities once stood.
While Vishniac captured the spirit of a people, their crowded, vibrant communities, pulsing with life, Gusky’s visual journey examines the ghosts they left behind. Returning to the quiet landscapes that once nourished Jewish life, Gusky found crumbling synagogues, ghetto walls, and silent streets that once hosted bustling markets, and his photographs resound hauntingly, with an almost specter-like aura.
This piece presents a number of remarkable high-resolution photographs, a photo-gallery, a documentary short and a deeply touching music video, the Gorecki Symphony No. 3, “Sorrowful Songs.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/portraits-of-life-and-loss-the-holoc...
While Vishniac captured the spirit of a people, their crowded, vibrant communities, pulsing with life, Gusky’s visual journey examines the ghosts they left behind. Returning to the quiet landscapes that once nourished Jewish life, Gusky found crumbling synagogues, ghetto walls, and silent streets that once hosted bustling markets, and his photographs resound hauntingly, with an almost specter-like aura.
This piece presents a number of remarkable high-resolution photographs, a photo-gallery, a documentary short and a deeply touching music video, the Gorecki Symphony No. 3, “Sorrowful Songs.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/portraits-of-life-and-loss-the-holoc...
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