Iosif Berman

Iosif Berman (autoportrait, c1930)

Iosif Berman (1892 - 1941), photographer, one of the first Romanian photoreporter. 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.

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

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.

Books

• Petcu, Marian, Istoria jurnalismului şi a publicităţii în România, Polirom, Iaşi, 2007, ISBN 978-973-46-0794-5 pp. 89-90 (in Romanian).

Links

• Iosif Berman on Romanian National Geographic Magazine, June 2008, pp. 39-43.