România Polifonică
Polyphonic Romania

Summary/Abstract: A photography project titled "ROMANIAS" as carried out in 2019 and then released as a three-volume album, and it was also presented as an exhibition in a splendid way in Bucharest. This Project is designed by the Bucharest-based Eidos Foundation and curated by Florian Ebner, chief curator of photography at the Center Pompidou, Paris. Cristian Movilă and Magnum Agency photographers, Bieke Depoorter, Thomas Dworzak, Paolo Pellegrin, Alec Soth, Newsha Tavakolian worked together on the project and each of them interpreted Romania in his/her own original way. Cristian Movilă is also founder of Eidos Foundation. The “ROMANIAS" project is historically very meaningful, as it coincides with the 100th anniversary of Romania's founding and the 30th anniversary of the end of Communism. In this study, post photography, the contemporary cultural functions of photojournalism, Magnum Photography Agency and related aesthetic strategies will be discussed; then The "ROMANIAS" project will be analyzed on selected examples using descriptive method in the context of photographic language and the styles of photographers.

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