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Eliot Porter

(American, 1901–1990)

Eliot Porter

Pool in a Brook, Pond Brook, Near Whiteface, New Hampshire, October, 1953, 1953

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Eliot Porter

Tarn and Cotton Grass, Fjordharheidhi, Iceland

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$fractured obsidian — landmannalaugar, iceland by eliot porter$

Eliot Porter

FRACTURED OBSIDIAN — Landmannalaugar, Iceland

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Eliot Porter

STEAM VENT — Landmannalaugar, Iceland

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Eliot Porter

WIND ERODED VOLCANIC ASH — Kleifarvatn, Iceland

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Eliot Porter

RIVER CANYON JUNCTION — Öxnadalsheidh, Iceland

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Eliot Porter

Coyote Gulch, Escalante River, August 17, 1971

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Eliot Porter

Reflections in Pool, Indian Creek, Escalante River, September 22, 1965

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Eliot Porter

Green Reflections in Stream, Moqui Creek, Glen Canyon, September 2, 1962

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Eliot Porter

Tamarisk and Grass, River's Edge, Glen Canyon, August, 1961

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Eliot Porter

Tidal marsh, Mount Desert Island, Maine, August 4, 1965

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Eliot Porter

Redbud Trees in Bottomland, Near Red River Gorge, Kentucky, April 17, 1968

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Timeline

1901: Born December 6 in Winnetka, Illinois
1912: Received first camera as a gift and began photographing birds and school athletic events
1920: Entered Harvard University to study chemical engineering
1924: Graduated from Harvard and entered Harvard Medical School
1926: Studied biochemistry at University of Cambridge, England
1927 - 1929: Returned to Harvard Medical School and received M.D. in 1929
1929 - 1939: Taught at Harvard Medical School
1939: Resigned from teaching to pursue photography
1941: Received a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph birds in black-and-white and in color
1946: Became Photographer-at-Large for Audubon Magazine
1965 - 1971: Elected to the Sierra Club board of directors
1967: Received the Conservation Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior
1969: Awarded Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by Colby College, Waterville, Maine
1971: Became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1979: Received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
1990: Died on November 2 in Santa Fe

Exhibitions

2002: Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
1997: A Passion for Birds: Eliot Porter's Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
1987: Eliot Porter, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
1986: Eliot Porter’s Southwest, Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
: Retrospective: Eliot Porter and Beaumont Newhall, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1981: American Photographers and the National Parks, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1980: Eliot Porter: Visual Explorations, Art Center, Amarillo, TX (solo)
1979: Intimate Landscapes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1978: Mexican Church Interiors: Color Dye-Transfers by Eliot Porter and Ellen Auerbach, Sander Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1977 - 1981: The Great West: Real/Ideal, (circulated by the Smithsonian Institution of Traveling Exhibition Service), University of Colorado, Boulder (and other venues - traveling exhibition)
1973 - 1975: Eliot Porter Retrospective, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque (and other venues - traveling exhibition)
1970: Eliot Porter: Nature’s Photographer, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (solo)
1965: Color Photographs by Eliot Porter, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1963: The Photographer and the American Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, New York
: An Exhibition of Photographs: Eliot Porter, Art Institute of Chicago (solo)
1957: Madonnas and Marketplaces: Mexico in Color, Limelight Gallery, New York
1955 - 1957: This Is the American Earth, (organized by Nancy Newhall and Ansel Adams and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, LeConte Lodge, Yosemite Valley, CA (and other venues - traveling exhibition)
1952: Diogenes with a Camera, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951: Color Photographs by Eliot Porter, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York (solo
1943: Birds in Color: Flashlight Photographs by Eliot Porter, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
1942: Photographs by Eliot Porter, New York Zoological Society (solo)
1936: Exhibition of Photographs by Eliot Porter, Delphic Studios, New York (solo)

Eliot Porter

(American, 1901–1990)

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Biography

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Exhibitions

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