“What a newspaper says?
Exhibition Old Photo Press: The Library of the Romanian Academy
This summary, sarcastic, Tudor Arghezi the state of the Romanian press in 1935, painting “The ideal newspaper”. Redutable newspaper himself, Arghezi was aware of the strength and role of the press and pleaded for publications that would inform “simply, but as complete”, offering the public “the gross event and the freedom to orient himself in it”.
The history of Romanian journalism is also the history of the modernization of society, as it appears from the captivating exhibition hosted by the Library of the Romanian Academy. From its beginning, with “Romanian Albina” andI “The Romanian courier”, The first newspapers published in Romanian, in 1829, the press was a mirror of reality, sometimes correct, sometimes deformed.
Press of PHOTO TIME: Library of the Romanian Academy
The exhibition has an original reference titles under print, spectacular specimens of avant -garde publications, special illustrated magazines, posters and advertisements from press, cartoons, but also documents regarding the evolution of the Gazette Bresteri, such as the painter of the newspapers in Bucharest, set up on April 5, on April 5, Elisabeta.
There are no missing newspapers that, during the interwar period, had reached stunning tirages: the universe-200,000 copies, in the morning-100,000, Adevărul-50,000, current-40,000, etc., in a period with hundreds of publications at national level.
Press of PHOTO TIME: Library of the Romanian Academy
“Today at least thirty newspapers appear in Bucharest”noted the same Arghezi in 1937, while Camil Petrescu, another active literature in the newspaper, the note in the journal, in 1936, the time consumed daily with the reading of the newspapers: one hour and a half in the morning, half an hour at lunch and half an hour, plus one hour Hebdomaries and foreign magazines and an hour to go. In total, four and a half hours of a day!
About the complicated evolution of the Romanian press throughout the centuries and about the fate of the newspaper in modern times will speak, at the opening of Thursday, March 20, at 12 o’clock, Acad. Marius Andruh, Vice-President of the Romanian Academy, Prof. Ing. Nicolae Noica, honorary member of the Academy and at the same time the director of the Library of the Academy, the director of the Library of the Academy. The exhibition is open on March 20-28 and can be visited daily between 9 and 16 hours, including Saturday. The entrance is free.
