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[Letter from Walter Bierer to Mara Vishniac Kohn]
Object Name
Vitrine:07.14
DateJuly 25, 1990
Label Text
Shortly before he was interned in 1940, Vishniac had entrusted his negatives to friend Walter Bierer in Paris. In this letter to Mara Vishniac Kohn, written shortly after Vishniac’s death, Walter Bierer describes how he managed to transport the photographer’s negatives from Europe to the United States via Cuba.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Paper: 10 3/4 x 8 5/16 in. (27.3 x 21.1 cm)
Location
Credit Line
Promised Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn
Accession NumberLoan_vishniac_walter_bierer
Copyright
© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography
For all uses of photographs by Roman Vishniac contact ICP at: vishniac_archive@icp.org.
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