Views of a vanished world wow at auction in Paris
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 Seco…