Iosif Berman

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.

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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.

Movies

Berman in front of the bear, image taken fromThe man with thousand eyes

• Alexandru Solomon: The man with thousand eyes, the life and pictures of Iosif Berman, reporter (2001) [Omul cu o mie de feţe - Viaţa şi fotografiile lui Iosif Berman], 52 min. and 26 min., video and 35 mm. Written, directed and photographed by Alexandru Solomon, edited by Nita Chivulescu. Produced by Ager Film with Fundatia Arte Vizuale and support from the CNC.[1]

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)
• Iosif Berman. A photo-album. English supplement of Martor magazine, nr. 3/ 1998 [2]

External links

• Berman at Wikipedia
• Iosif Berman on Historia magazine