La calavera
- Title:
- La calavera
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- History of photography
- Creator:
- Palma, Luiz Gonzales
- Creation Date:
- 1989
- ID Number:
- 2007
- File Name:
- 2007.077.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
bitumen (material) - Subject:
- Art and Photography
contemporary art - Measurement:
- 49.8 x 49.8 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Portrait in profile of a deer skull, plants and rope arranged either over a person's face, or to resemble a person wearing the deer skull as a mask. The dark image has been sepia toned and most of the surface painted with bitumen, which lends a painterly quality to the image and emphasizes the whiteness of the nasal bone and the rope knotted at the temple. The skull faces left, with bundled leaves and stems in the place of hair.
- Notes:
- Framed gelatin silver print coated with bitumen.
- Cite As:
- Luis Gonzalez Palma (Guatemalan, born 1957), La calavera (the skull), 1989. Gelatin silver print with bitumen, framed: 49.8 x 49.8 cm. Acquired through the generosity of Diana G. Karnas and Abe Tomás Hughes II, 2007.077.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the Mellon Teaching Sets Collection are unknown. Whenever possible, information on current rights owners is included with the image. Digitization took place at varied times from items held at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in service of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cornell is providing access to low-resolution, non-downloadable versions of the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial research and educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at museum@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.