Elu esiküljel ja tagahoovis

Muljeid näituselt ning kataloogi lugedes

Abstract

Life on the Front Page and in the Back Yard
Impressions about the exhibition and its catalogue

In October 2021, the exhibition „Life on the Front Page” was opened at the UT Library, which brought to its viewers Estonian-language newspapers published over the past 200 years, showing 231 front pages of 77 different newspapers published in Estonia, America, Russia, Sweden and Australia. Based on the materials of the exhibition, Roosmarii Kurvits prepared a 174-page catalogue Life on the front page. Front pages of Estonian newspapers 1821–2021, published at the beginning of 2022. This large-format collection, edited by
Tiit Hennoste, gives a comprehensive overview of the development of our newspapers, illustrated by their front pages; the catalogue is divided into four periods and accompanied by texts written by Krista Aru and Roosmarii Kurvits.

While browsing the exhibition catalogue, the author of the article recalls her childhood encounters with newspapers, their availability and reading of them.