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[[File:Iosif Berman - Autoportret.jpg |thumb|200px|Iosif Berman (autoportrait, c1930)]]
 
[[File:Iosif Berman - Autoportret.jpg |thumb|200px|Iosif Berman (autoportrait, c1930)]]
'''Iosif Berman''' (1892 - 1941), photographer, one of the first Romanian photoreporter.
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[[File:Photo Berman NG 34.jpg |thumb|258px|in left Constantin Brăiloiu recording a man singing at a cimpoi, the Romanian bagpipe (photo by Iosif Berman reproduced in National Geographic Magazine, 1934)]]
During the mid-1920s, Berman collaborated with the Romanian sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, who studied the Romanian village and traditions, and with Filip Brunea-Fox (1898–1977) for his reportage articles.
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'''Iosif Berman''' (1892–1941), photographer, early Romanian photojournalist.
  
[[File:Photo Berman NG 34.jpg |thumb|250px|in left Constantin Brăiloiu recording a man singing at a cimpoi, the Romanian bagpipe (photo by Iosif Berman reproduced in National Geographic Magazine, 1934)]]
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During the mid-1920s, Berman collaborated with the Romanian sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, who studied Romanian villages and traditions, and with Filip Brunea-Fox (1898–1977) on his reportage articles.
  
 
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; Legacy
* After WWII, the communist government in Romania tried to use the photos of Berman for propaganda, but they were hardly propaganda material. According to a researcher at Museum of the Romanian Peasant, he presented a realist view of the Romanian village.
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After the World War II, the communist government tried to use the photos for propaganda, but they were hardly propaganda material. According to a researcher at Museum of the Romanian Peasant, he presented a realist view of the rural life, with its poor, its gypsies, its village idiot.
  
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* Petcu, Marian, Istoria jurnalismului şi a publicităţii în România, Polirom, Iaşi, 2007, ISBN 978-973-46-0794-5 pp. 89-90 (in Romanian).
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* Marian Petcu, ''Istoria jurnalismului şi a publicităţii în România'', Iaşi: Polirom, 2007, pp. 89-90. ISBN 9789734607945. (in Romanian)
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* Domnica Macri, "[http://www.natgeo.ro/locuri-si-oameni/cultura/8672-iosif-berman?showall=1 Iosif Berman]", ''National Geographic Romania'', June 2008, pp 39-43. (in Romanian)
  
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* [http://www.natgeo.ro/locuri-si-oameni/cultura/8672-iosif-berman?showall=1 ''Iosif Berman'' on Romanian National Geographic Magazine, June 2008, pp. 39-43.]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Berman Berman at Wikipedia]
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[[Category:Photography|Berman, Iosif]]

Revision as of 18:46, 12 June 2013

Iosif Berman (autoportrait, c1930)
in left Constantin Brăiloiu recording a man singing at a cimpoi, the Romanian bagpipe (photo by Iosif Berman reproduced in National Geographic Magazine, 1934)

Iosif Berman (1892–1941), photographer, early Romanian photojournalist.

During the mid-1920s, Berman collaborated with the Romanian sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, who studied Romanian villages and traditions, and with Filip Brunea-Fox (1898–1977) on his reportage articles.

Legacy

After the World War II, the communist government tried to use the photos for propaganda, but they were hardly propaganda material. According to a researcher at Museum of the Romanian Peasant, he presented a realist view of the rural life, with its poor, its gypsies, its village idiot.

Literature
  • Marian Petcu, Istoria jurnalismului şi a publicităţii în România, Iaşi: Polirom, 2007, pp. 89-90. ISBN 9789734607945. (in Romanian)
  • Domnica Macri, "Iosif Berman", National Geographic Romania, June 2008, pp 39-43. (in Romanian)
External links