A country photo portrait of 1923: E. O. Hoppé In Greater Romania
Abstract. In 1923 Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972), the famous London photographer whose masterful
and skilled studio portraiture made him a darling to many elite sitters, left his lucrative studio in Millais
House and made a journey to Greater Romania. By train, by car, by coach, by cart or on horseback, Hoppé
covered in only six weeks a vast area of the new country that is fair to say few Romanians had a chance to
travel through so soon after the Unification, and at such a speed. A year later Hoppé produced his travel
journal called “In Gipsy Camp and Royal Palace: Wanderings in Rumania” a 240 pages book with 32 photo
illustrations and many vignettes after Hoppe’s drawings by illustrator Bold. Queen Marie signed the foreword
and her Majesty portrait was inserted next to the title page. With a small camera and an artist eye, E. O.
Hoppé captured the soul of a newly united country, the portrait of Greater Romania and its great sovereigns.
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Author Name: Adrian-Silvan IONESCU
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Keywords: Greater Romania, Photography, E. O. Hoppé, Queen Marie, King Ferdinand, Peli?or Castle, Bran Castle, Transylvania, Her?a.
ISSN: 2587-3695
EISSN: 1857-2537
EOI/DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3366964
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