Eliot Porter

Eliot Furness Porter ( born December 6, 1901 in Winnetka, Illinois, † November 2, 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico ) was an American photographer.

Life

Eliot Porter studied, doctorate and taught at Harvard University in the field of biochemistry. 1939 Alfred Stieglitz discovered his talent and hired him for a photo exhibition. For the first time in 1941 and again in 1946, when Porter had changed professionally in the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for each photo project. In 1971 he was appointed a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.

From 1946 he lived in Santa Fe, where he died in 1990.

Work

Eliot Porter became famous with his nature and landscape photography. Even as a boy, he began to be interested in nature and photograph birds. The passion for structures and patterns for the irregular and chaotic, but also the fractal structures in nature, he converted image. While his early works were often in black and white, later began to be very important to him the color.

His supporters included, among other things, Beaumont Newhall, who was already head of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art at the time of getting to know 1938. In later years, the inventor and as a photographer built became known H. Edgerton for Eliot Porter a stroboscopic flash, so he could capture birds in various stages of flight. Eliot Porter photographed while traveling in Iceland and Greece, in the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica. The pictures of the Grand Canyon, he visited repeatedly over decades, are among the classics of American landscape photography.