The Teacher’s House V. G. Wool, Runcu, Gorj, 1930

Iosif Berman · 1930

The photo depicts a woman and a girl dressed in popular port specific to the area (shirt with foothills, paired catholes, cotton cloth or borangic on the head) hating a calf in the courtyard of the house, under the gaze of a dog and a duck freshman. The house with a gazebo in front of which the stage is held has a high ground floor, made of stone, a closed porch with a plank railing, a roof with a shingle covering. On the wall of the house, in the shade of the vineyard connecting the pillars of the porch, the portraits of the kings of Romania, Ferdinand and Maria are laid in the frame. In the courtyard, on an annex with the walls made of wooden beams and shingle roof in two waters, are hung a chimpoi and a shepherd hood. Imginea was captured by Iosif Berman (1892-1941), journalist and official photographer of the Royal Court, who accompanied Professor Gusti’s teams in almost all the village monography campaigns. One of his great qualities was the capture of the snapshots of the village life. 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.