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Heading: Author: Heick, William Title: Hats, Seattle, 1951 Place Published: Publisher: Date Published: 1951; vintage print Description: Gelatin silver print mounted on board. Image: 17.3x22.5 cm (6¾x9"); mount: 38.2x47.6 cm (15x18¾"); mat: 40.8x50.8 cm (16x20"). Signed on mount recto by William Heick. Additionally signed on verso with title, print date (1951) and "Rollieflex Super xx". Inscribed on verso "For my friend Ursula - Bill H." William Heick (1916-2012) was a San Francisco-based photographer and film-maker as well as a member of the faculty at UC Berkeley's Anthropology department. One might hope that the Ursula mentioned in the inscription would be Ursula Le Guin, the daughter of Cal anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber and his wife Theodora Kroeber, herself the author of anthropology classic Ishi in Two Worlds. Tinged with the same symbolism as Billy Collins' poem The Death of the Hat, the photograph – verging on abstraction – captures a decisive moment on Fathers Day in midcentury America.