Old woman in Vietnamese hat

Travel photo

Archive

Accession Nr.: F.2025.39.32.
Type: photograph
Date of production:
1959
Place of production:
Materials: paper
Techniques: black and white; slide positive
Dimensions: height: 21.6 cm
width: 18.3 cm
In the lower left corner of the picture you can see an elderly Vietnamese woman sitting on a bench. He wears a Vietnamese hat and a long dark roe, and sandals on his feet. In the background of the picture, people standing on a platform with their backs and a large tree can be seen, and on the side of the picture, a blurred figure of a woman wearing an ao dai enters. 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.