Țara Moartă plot
The election of an anti-Semitic nationalist as prime minister prompted a Jewish doctor from Bucharest to start keeping a diary in December 1937. This document and photographs from the same period, from a studio in southeastern Romania, are the primary sources of "The Dead Nation". The everyday images show random people who are self-conscious, combative, sullen or cheerful looking into the lens, usually in their Easter best. They are mainly posed portraits of families, children, associations, farmers with their prize cattle, groups of friends, soldiers or their sweethearts at home.