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.

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

• Alexandru Solomon: The man with thousand eyes (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.

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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

• Berman at Wikipedia