Hedda Morrison – General 

The primary references on Hedda Morrison are her books and the two memoirs written by her husband, Alastair Morrison. Hedda Morrison published a number of magazine and journal articles, photographic features and individual photographs (see, for example, The Family of Man). Others, notably Raymond Lum and Claire Roberts, have written about her photography and life.
 
Like many photographers Hedda Morrison recorded very little about her photographic beliefs and practice. Besides observations based on interpreting the images in her published books, and viewing her prints in various collections, almost all of this website’s comments on her work are from Edward Stokes’ oral history interviews with Alastair Morrison, made with the assistance of the Oral History Branch of the National Library of Australia.  
 
 
Hedda Morrison – Photographs and Documents

The two primary collections of Hedda Morrison photographs – with negatives, contact and album prints – are held by Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University (her photographs of East Asia); and by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library (her photographs of South and Southeast Asia). Cornell also holds Hedda and Alastair Morrison’s passports and travel diaries from the postwar years.  
 
In Australia the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, led by Claire Roberts, did pioneering work on Hedda Morrison. The Museum has a large Hedda Morrison collection.
It includes Morrison’s photographs taken during her years in Germany, China, Sarawak and Australia; as well as personal memorabilia and collected objects from the lives of Hedda and Alastair Morrison. (Archive donated by Alastair Morrison.) The National Gallery of Australia also holds Hedda Morrison exhibition prints; and the National Library of Australia holds her Australian photographs. 
 
 
Hedda Morrison – Websites and Online Photographs

The Harvard University Library’s VIA online catalogue http://via.harvard.edu presents Hedda Morrison’s China photographs, some 5,000 in all, extracted from her thematic albums.
 
Information about her life and work is recorded in the Harvard-Yenching Library’s Hedda Morrison web page http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching Click on ‘Collections’, and then on ‘Hedda Morrrison Photographs of China’. At the first page that comes up, click on ‘Proceed’ to see a link for the Hedda Morrison bibliography and life chronology, and to connect to VIA. 
 
The Powerhouse Museum’s Hedda Morrison collection is accessible at
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/heddamorrison

Selected Bibliography

Eberhard, Wolfram and Hedda Morrison. Hua Shan: the Taoist Sacred Mountain in West China. Hong Kong: Vetch and Lee, 1973.
 
Lum, Raymond and Rubie Watson. ‘Camera Sinica: China Photographs in the Harvard-Yenching Library and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’ in Patrick Hanan (ed). Treasures of the Yenching: Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Exhibition Catalogue. Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, 2003.
 
Morrison, Alastair. Fair Land Sarawak, Some Recollections of an Expatriate Official. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1993.
 
Morrison, Alastair. The Bird Fancier, A Journey to Peking. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Australian National University, 2001.
 
Morrison, Hedda. A Photographer in Old Peking. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1985.
 
Morrison, Hedda. Life in a Longhouse. Kuching: Borneo Literature Bureau, 1962.
 
Morrison, Hedda. Sarawak. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1957. 
 
Morrison, Hedda. Travels of a Photographer in China, 1933 – 1946. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1987.
 
Morrison, Hedda, K. F. Wong and Leigh Wright. Vanishing World, The Ibans of Borneo. New York: John Weatherhill, 1972.  
 
Roberts, Claire (ed). In Her View, The Photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933 – 67. Haymarket, NSW: Powerhouse Publishing, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, 1993.