Costum de femeie (Cercetare 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. Portrait of girl in traditional folk harbor: fairy tale, shirt with rivers and moose (wide embroidery at the top of the sleeves, made with sherds or silk), trench (rectangular piece of wool cloth, woven in two sherds) with small decoration at the edges, sticks. The girl is placed on a grove and sews a lump (piece of linen cloth, hemp, cotton, borangic, edged on the edges and adorned with stitches); she is supported by a fence of boards arranged horizontally.