EVENTS 2008

Pictures Taken in Natural Colors

Fred Payne Clatworthy (1875 – 1953): Pictures Taken in Natural Colors

Lecture by Mark Jacobs, photo historian

When: Tuesday, November 4, 17:30
Where: American Center, Tržiště 13, Prague 1

Fred Payne Clatworthy was born in Ohio in 1875. After several visits to the West, including bicycling from Chicago to California, Clatworthy settled in Estes Park, Colorado, in 1905. A self-taught photographer, Clatworthy was known for his work with the Lumiere Autochrome, the first truly successful color photographic process. In addition to running his Estes Park studio Ye Lyttel Shop, where he sold Western curios and hand-colored photographs, Clatworthy did assignments for The National Geographic Magazine as well as presenting autochrome lectures throughout the US. Between 1923 and 1934, The National Geographic published over one hundred his autochromes. Clatworthy claimed to have made over 10,000 autochromes during his career: his stunning color works document the Western United States, Mexico, New Zealand, and Hawaii. Clatworthy died in 1953.

Mark Jacobs, Madison, WI, owns a world famous collection of autochromes, including hundreds of Clatworthy‘s works. He is visiting the Czech Republic, with  U.S. Embassy support, to attend the international workshop Legacy of Three-Color Photography at the National Technical Museum (http://3color.ucw.cz) and to open F. P. Clatworty’s first European exhibition at the Šechtl and Voseček Museum of Photography in Tábor (http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz).

The program will be interpreted.