Pioneer Photography in Bolivia

Hermann, [?]. Thought to have been a German engineer, Hermann led a scientific expedition to the Río Pilcomayo and the Chaco ca. 1907. See "Expedición al alto Pilcomayo," Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires, vol. X, no. 463, 17 August 1907).

Herrera y G., Justo. The imprint "Justo Herrera y G., La Paz-Bolivia, appears on a 1901 cabinet card inscribed from Victoria de Noriega to the Benjamin Martinez family.

Hervé, Baltasar. According to historian Pedro Querejazu, who has reviewed the newspapers of the era, Hervé opened his first gallery "a la máquina de daguerrotipo" in Sucre in 1854 and his second in Cochabamba in 1856, making him one of the first professional daguerreotypists in Bolivia. An English portrait artist named Enrique Hervé worked in Buenos Aires and Mendoza in the 1820s, but it is not known if he had any relation to Baltasar.

Herzog, Theodor (1880-1961). Herzog was a German mountain climber (with seven first ascents in the Quimsa Cruz and Cochabamba ranges in 1910 and 1911), writer, and photographer. See his books Vom Urwald zu den Gletschern der Kordillere: Zwei Forschungreisen in Bolivia (1913) and Bergfahrten in Südamerika (1925), which contain numerous of his photographs.

Hettner, Alfred (1859-1941). Hettner was a geographer in the universities of Leipzig, Tübingen, and Heidelberg. He traveled in Colombia in 1882 and 1883, and in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Brazil from 1888 to 1890. Whether he made photographs in Bolivia or not is unknown. See his "Enforschumng der Anden von Peru und Bolivien," Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen (1888-1890), and Manuel B. Ballivián, "Viaje del Dr. Hettner al Perú y Bolivia," La Revista Social (Lima, no. 24, June 1891).

Hiersemann, [?]. Hiersemann was a photographer whose real-photo postcards of Bolivia were published between 1913 and 1919 by the Hispanic Society of America in New York.

Hoek, Henry William (1878-1951). A Dutch-born, Swiss-naturalized geologist and skimountaineer, Hoek explored in Bolivia in 1903 and 1904. Jill Neate credits Hoek with the "first recorded exploration" of the Cordillera Oriental southeast of the Cordillera Real. Two photographs of the sierra near Potosí illustrate his "Cordillera de Potosí," Alpine Journal (vol.

XXIII, no. 171, February 1906); six photographs illustrate his "Exploration in Bolivia," Geographic Journal (vol. XXV, no. 4, 1905); and some twenty images, mostly Andean views, are featured in his 1927 book, Aus Bolivias Bergen, republished in 1929 as Por las montañas de Bolivia.

Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao (1852-1937). Of Austrian ancestry, Holmberg was an Argentine polymath--a physician, botanist, zoologist, writer, and photographer. As a young man he traveled with Francisco Moreno in Patagonia, and in 1888, he was appointed the first director of the Buenos Aires Zoo. While traveling in central Bolivia ca. 1908, Holmberg photographed and wrote about llama drovers, kallawayas, and stagecoach runners. See his "Los Grandes Andarines de América," Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires, vol. XI, no. 520, 19 September 1908), and Luis Holmberg, Holmberg, el último enciclopedista (1952).