Ivory carver

Travel photo

Archive

Accession Nr.: F.2025.39.54.
Type: photograph
Date of production:
1959
Place of production:
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour diapositive
Dimensions: height: 9.8 cm
width: 7.8 cm
"The ivory carver is working hand and foot on his new work." 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. The picture is published in the book: picture 67 in the main text.