Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema: “Vishniac”

Watch the Nancy Spielberg and Roberta Grossman produced documentary, Vishniac, at the 19th annual Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema!

He was difficult and flamboyant, a shameless self-promoter, bender of the truth and master of reinvention. He was also one of the groundbreaking photographers of the 20th century– a brilliant artist whose body of work spans decades, continents, and the catastrophic fallout from two world wars.  As he captured Jewish life in Eastern Europe from 1935 through 1938, few predicted that less than a decade later, these communities would be wiped out and Vishniac’s photographs would provide the last visual records of a vanished world.