This and other negatives of people in regional dress at the Stuttgart Folk Festival are among the few known photographs taken by Hedda Hammer (Morrison) during her youth in Germany. The images were perhaps captured as an assignment undertaken while she was a student at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography in Munich. Hedda has carefully recorded the detail of regional costume and accessories, the shape and texture of hats and the beauty of elaborate headdresses as if discovering and exploring the 'exotic' within her own culture.

This is one of about 50 photographs known to have been taken by Hedda Hammer (Morrison) at the Stuttgart Folk Festival. This image was taken on Eastman Kodak nitrate film.

Exhibited in "In Her View: the Photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-1967", Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 11 June - 10 October 1993.

Reproduced in Roberts, Claire, 'Hedda Morrison's Photographs of Peking', East Asian History, Australian National University Canberra, No. 4, Dec 1992, p. 87; Roberts, Claire (ed.), 'In Her View: The photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1993, p. 7.

Photograph, 'Older man with pipe, war medals and Nazi badge at the Stuttgart Folk Festival', black and white, negative, by Hedda Hammer (Morrison), Stuttgart, Germany, 1931.

Portrait of man in regional dress at the Stuttgart Folk Festival. He wears a dark vest buttoned with large spherical metal buttons over a light shirt, and an open double-breasted jacket. Attached to the breast of the jacket are war medals and a Nazi badge. An elaborate pipe hangs from his mouth, and he wears a cloth hat with brim and a ribbon around the crown.

Made: 1931

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1931

115 mm

87 mm