Rock-Traits with monographers (Nereju 1927)

Iosif Berman · 1927

Photo published in the volume “Nerej, a village from the ancient land of Vrancea,” author Dr. Paula Popoiu and Ion Cherciu, Ed. “Encyclopedic” Bucharest, 2007. Research Nerej; the one who immortalized all the important moments of this monographic campaign was the photographer Iosif Berman (1892-1941), journalist and official photographer of the Royal Court; he was present, almost, in all the monographic campaigns of the villages with the teams of Professor Dimitrie Gusti. In addition to making the snapshots taken from the life and activity of the village, he was also a very good portrait artist, surprising the monographers as they moved, with different means, to collect the information from the field. In the picture we see two carriages that follow the course of the Snow water (its valley having on one side and the other summits that descend steeply to the water). They are probably stopped to shelter the horses.