Bolivia. Circa 1948.

Set of 10 vintage gelatin silver prints -measured, around 18 x 22 cm / 7.08 x 8.66 in-, mounted on rigid secondary cardboard 30.2 x 37.6 cm / 11.89 x 14.8 in. All with the author's indication in manuscript at the bottom of the cartons, "Photo A. Hundhammer" and titled in graphite pencil. One of them with a wet stamp that reads: "Alfons Hundhammer Photo". The works are presented in a modern museum preservation box.

The camera in its European vision stopped in the architectural details of the viceregal period, in the local customs -indigenous and Creole, it even documented a small group of nuns in La Paz, one of them with a clay jug on her head-, and in its nature, such as a shot of the nests of the Huichico, a bird that inhabits the region. And he did it while traveling a good part of the Bolivian geography.

After the Second World War, Alfons Hundhammer, like many other German professionals, settled in Bolivia where he continued his professional work. It is known that in July 1951 he reached the summit in the snowy Sajama (6542 m.a.s.l.) together with General Julio Ramón Azero and accompanied by soldiers from the Curahuara de Carangas regiment; Another prominent German photographer and cameraman, Hans Erlt, was part of that mountain expedition, Marshal Rommel's official photographer and cameraman for the documentary Olympia, made during the Berlin Olympics in 1936, under the direction of the famous filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl.

An event to highlight is the recent location of a group of 59 vintage photographs by Alfons Hundhammer in the heritage of the Museo Colonial Charcas, dependent on the Universidad Mayor de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca -Sucre, Bolivia-, material that was used for the edition of a virtual exhibition entitled "A journey through time, from black and white to color." The photographic works were with their inventory number, but without further references, and the museographic team headed by the person in charge of the Museum, Carmen V. Negrón Camacho, also advances in their investigations on the steps of this photographer, undoubtedly a professional who enjoyed of that country, its people and its customs, as well as its natural wealth.

Titles of the works:

1. Beni

2. Altiplano. Going down to Sucre. Bolivia 1940.

3. Sorata. Bolivia.

4. Altiplano.

5. Peasant from Potosí.

6. Bolivia.

7. Matacos de Villa Monte. Tarija - Frontera.

8. Nuns La Paz.

9. Church - Potosí - Bolivia - 1940.

10. Nidos de Huichico - Birds.