Casă veche, Runcu, Gorj, 1930

Iosif Berman · 1930

The photo depicts an old house made of wooden beams with a four-water shingle roof damaged. On one side it has a partial porch. In front of the house stands with crossed hands, standing, an old woman dressed in work clothes and with a white stem on her head. The dialogue between the old woman and the house was surprised by Iosif Berman (1892-1941), journalist and official photographer of the Royal Court, who accompanied Professor Gusti’s teams in almost all the village monographing campaigns. One of his great qualities was the capture of the snapshots of the village life. He was also an uneventful portrait artist. On the initiative and under the direction of Professor Dimitrie Gusti from 29 June to 18 August 1930, a team of 60 monographers methodically and analytically researched all areas of his life - cosmological, biological, psychological, historical, economic, spiritual, political-administrative, at Runcu, Gorj, village (documentary attestation in 1486) situated at the foothills of the Vâcan Mountains in Sohodolului Gorge. Following this thorough investigation we defined the Romanian concepts about the theory and technique of sociological monography that in the coming years began to be known and applied also by researchers from other countries in Europe. Photography, cacherata on a cardboard sheet, with the humorous information: region, locality, title (in Romanian, French, German), date, photographer.