Constructing a Foundry
Detail from Willy Lefkowitz and Martin Grünpeter constructing a foundry, Werkdorp Niewuwesluis, c.1938
Willy Lefkowitz was arrested when the Werkdorp was closed by the Nazis in 1941. Along with the majority of the remaining inhabitants, he was sent to the Westerbork Transit Camp in North-Eastern Netherlands, a site where Jews and Roma were assembled prior to their deportation to extermination camps in the East. Of the 107,000 people who passed through Westerbork only 5,200 survived, including Lefkowitz, who emmigrated to the United States. Martin Grünpeter (b. 1914, Germany), survived World War II and immigrated to Palestine.
[Photographers' Gallery]
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
(October 2018 - February 2019)
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective of Russian born American photographer, Roman Vishniac (1897–1990).
An extraordinarily versatile and innovative photographer, Vishniac is best known for having created one of the most widely recognised and reproduced photographic records of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars. Featuring many of his most iconic works, this comprehensive exhibition further introduces recently discovered and lesser-known chapters of his photographic career from the early 1920s to the late 1970s. The cross-venue exhibition presents radically diverse bodies of work and positions Vishniac as one of the most important social documentary photographers of the 20th century whose work also sits within a broader tradition of 1930s modernist photography.
[Photographers' Gallery]
Constructing a Foundry
Detail from Willy Lefkowitz and Martin Grünpeter constructing a foundry, Werkdorp Niewuwesluis, c.1938
Willy Lefkowitz was arrested when the Werkdorp was closed by the Nazis in 1941. Along with the majority of the remaining inhabitants, he was sent to the Westerbork Transit Camp in North-Eastern Netherlands, a site where Jews and Roma were assembled prior to their deportation to extermination camps in the East. Of the 107,000 people who passed through Westerbork only 5,200 survived, including Lefkowitz, who emmigrated to the United States. Martin Grünpeter (b. 1914, Germany), survived World War II and immigrated to Palestine.
[Photographers' Gallery]
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
(October 2018 - February 2019)
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective of Russian born American photographer, Roman Vishniac (1897–1990).
An extraordinarily versatile and innovative photographer, Vishniac is best known for having created one of the most widely recognised and reproduced photographic records of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars. Featuring many of his most iconic works, this comprehensive exhibition further introduces recently discovered and lesser-known chapters of his photographic career from the early 1920s to the late 1970s. The cross-venue exhibition presents radically diverse bodies of work and positions Vishniac as one of the most important social documentary photographers of the 20th century whose work also sits within a broader tradition of 1930s modernist photography.
[Photographers' Gallery]