Amateur Photographer

Roman Vishniac Rediscovered

his seventh birthday Roman Vishniac received two notable gifts: a microscope and a camera. Like most children he was curious about the world around him and decided to combine the devices to magnify the leg of a cockroach, recording what he discovered. Now, more than a century after this experiment, The Photographers' Gallery and the Jewish Museum London have been granted access to his entire archive, comprising 50,000 objects. Particular highlights include10,000 colour science slides,10,000 negatives,

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