Artworks · Roman Vishniac

The Mushroom Cloud

1941 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 25.8 × 33.5 cm (10 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Mount: 40.5 × 50.7 cm (16 × 20 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Nettie Stub, Eleven Years Old, from Hanover, in a Polish Detention Camp, Zbaszyn

1938 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 29.7 × 27.3 cm (11 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.2 × 28 cm (13 7/8 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Philosopher

1938 · Gelatin silver print

7 11/16 × 9 1/2" (19.5 × 24.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Kraków, Poland

1938 · Gelatin silver print

9 3/4 × 7 5/8" (24.7 × 19.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Study in Yeshiva

1938 · Gelatin silver print

8 7/8 × 6 1/2" (22.5 × 16.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Softening Stale Bread, Leopoldstadt, Vienna

1935 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 20.5 × 20 cm (8 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.5 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Street Vendors, Warsaw

1935 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 27.9 × 27.3 cm (11 × 10 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Worker's Hand, Eastern Europe

1935 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 19.6 × 24.6 cm (7 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.1 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Wife of Nat Gutman, a Porter, Warsaw

1935 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 25.2 × 20.5 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Scissors-Grinder, Sighet or Chust

1935 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 27.9 × 27.3 cm (11 × 10 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Isaac Street, Kazimierz, Krakow

1935 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper/mount: 33.6 × 26.4 cm (13 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Students Discussing the Chumash in Cheder (Jewish Elementary School)

1933 · Gelatin silver print

27.3 × 43.8 (image); 27.9 × 35.4 in. (paper)

Art Institute of Chicago