Fred Payne Clatworthy (1875 – 1953)
“When the World Turned to Color ” — 20th exhibition of Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography.
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Excavation at Mesa Verde.
Fred Payne Clatworthy (–)
Autochrome 5 × 7 inches,
Owner of the original autochrome: Collection of Mark Jacobs All rights reserved, use of the digital reproduction is possible only with written permission from the owner of photographThe remains of a partially mummified skeleton of a young child is displayed along with Native American pottery. There is something almost perverse about such a macabre grouping, a morbid and even grotesque still-life, in which the human remains of a child are display with the same dispassion as the artifacts o ancient civilization.
