Published in New York in 1977, The Vanished World Portfolio is a selection of a dozen photographs from the very many that were taken in the late 1930s in Cracow, Warsaw, the Carpathian regions and elsewhere in eastern Europe by Roman Vishniac (1897-1990).
At the time the Russian-born photographer was living in Berlin, but in the early years of the Second World War he managed to emigrate to the USA, where his reputation as both photographer and indeed microbiologist was made.
This edition was limited to 50 copies in which all the photographs are artist’s proofs, signed on the mounts.