Frederick Sommer 1905-1999

Gift of the photographer to Dr. Ernest Born, circa 1940

Estate of Ernest Born

Acquired by the present owners from the above

Other prints of this image:

Where Images Come From (Denver Art Museum, 1987), unpaginated

Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawings, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 38

Frederick Sommer: Son of the Box (Tucson and Munich, 1998), unpaginated

Deja Vu, No. 11 (Tokyo: Photo-Planete, 1993)

Dr. Born provided this 'perfectly-formed human placenta from the easiest birthing he had ever attended' (The Art of Frederick Sommer, p. 222).

This is believed to be the earliest known print of this image.  Another print of this image is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.