Ho Chi Minh during an interview with Imre Patkó - North Vietnam

Travel photo

Archive

Accession Nr.: F.2025.37.6.
Type: photograph
Date of production:
1959
Place of production:
Materials: paper
Techniques: black and white; slide positive
Dimensions: height: 11.8 cm
width: 9 cm
In the photo, Ho Chi Minh is sitting on a flower-patterned sofa with a burning cigarette and glasses in his right hand. He looks straight into the camera. On the right side of the picture, Imre Patkó is taking notes. Photographer Miklós Rév took photos in 1959 in North Vietnam, in the then Democratic Republic of Vietnam. They reported on their trip with journalist Imre Patkó in their book "Vietnam", published in 1960. Several photos of their meeting with Ho Chi Minh were published.