Everyday Propaganda. Images from the Archive of the Romanian Peasant Museum
Everyday Propaganda. Images from the Archive of the Romanian Peasant Museum

Summary/Abstract: The illustration for this issue dedicated to everyday life in the Socialist Republic of Romania comes from the archive of the Romanian Peasant Museum. The black-and-white images spread throughout the texts of the volume are amateur photographs taken mainly in the 1970s and 1980s by two photographers, Vlad Columbeanu and Cornel Radu. They kindly agreed to donate parts of their photographic collection to the museum. Their recording of the usually grim reality of everyday life in Socialist Romania stands in contrast to the colorful, enthusiastic, and joyful images created for the propaganda industry. Unlike the everyday life, amateur images gathered purposefully for the museum’s visual archive, the propaganda posters you are about to see in this visual insert were for a long time an unwanted inheritance in the basement of the Peasant Museum.

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