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In 1930 Hoppé traveled throughout the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). When he arrived on the island of Bali, he paused in awe. “Bali is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. It is a kind of dolce far niente, a paradise on earth. [It] is a land of women, naked above the waist, moving statuesquely along with vast loads on their heads, amazing examples of balance, strength and sheer natural beauty. Their faces are very expressive, frank and open, quick to smile; they are happy and unfrightened, unsuspicious.” So wrote Hoppé for a book he planned but never published. Some twenty years later photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson visited Bali to be captivated by the same idea, but it had all changed by then as the burgeoning tourist trade eroded the idyll culture that Hoppé saw and so exquisitely documented.

Sisters, Bali, 1930	Dancing Girls, Bali, 1930	Hair Wreath, Bali, 1930	Dancing Girl, Bali, 1930
Bathing, Bali, 1930	Girls, Sumatra, 1930	Dancing Girls, Bali, 1930	Dancing Girls, Bali, 1930
Sulawesi, 1930	Bali, 1930	Seller, Bali, 1930	Sumatra, 1930
Solo, Java, 1930	Java, 1930	Ricefields, Bali, 1930	Temple, Bali, 1930
Bali, 1930	Java, 1930	Java, 1930	Java, 1930