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The subtitle Chronotopia draws directly from literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the "chronotope"—a site where spatial and temporal indicators fuse
Bill Edwards (two copies)
Charles Swedlund
" Fine hardcover with dust jacket
Daguerre invented the daguerreotype with the photo on a silver coated copper plate
Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac. Signed book The subtitle Chronotopia draws directlyWith a Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. [A remarkable book on the poorer Jews of Europe just before the Holocaust. While living in Berlin in the 1930s, Roman Vishniac (18971990) was commissioned by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to make photographs of impoverished Jews in Central and Eastern Europe that could be used to promote charitable donations. About 2,000 of an estimated 16,000 negatives survived World