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ID: 500007426
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007426
 
Record Type: Person
Porter, Eliot (American photographer, 1901-1990)

Note: Born 6 December 1901, Porter took up photography in 1930. He taught biochemistry at Harvard University until 1939, when he became a professional freelance photographer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after being encouraged by Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz. In 1940, Porter began to specialize in colour photography. From 1944 to 1946, Porter worked as a freelance landscape and wildlife photographer in Winnetka, Illinois. In 1946, Porter settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he photographed birds for Audubon Magazine. In 1955-1956, Porter travelled to Mexico with photographer Ellen Auerbach to photograph Mexican churches. From 1967 to 1971, Porter took three photographic trips to Greece and Turkey. Porter undertook three expeditions to photograph in Antarctica from 1975 to 1977. Many of his nature photographs are firmly linked with the Sierra Club and its promotion of conservation causes. He died 2 November 1990.

Names:
Porter, Eliot Furness (preferred,V,index)
Eliot Furness Porter (V,display)
Porter, Eliot (V,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Porter, Eliot (Dutch-P,NA)
Porter, Eliot F. (V)
Eliot Furness (V)
Eliot Porter (U)
פורטר, אליוט (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
physician
professor
photographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Winnetka (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Santa Fe (Santa Fe county, New Mexico, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1939-1942  Cambridge (Worcester county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   1944-1946  Winnetka (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   1946-1990  Santa Fe (Santa Fe county, New Mexico, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   1955-1956  Mexico (North and Central America) (nation)
active:   1964-1966  Baja California (Mexico) (state)
active:   1967-1971  Europe (World) (continent)
active:   1970  Africa (World) (continent)
active:   1972  Iceland (Europe) (nation)
active:   1973  Egypt (Africa) (nation)
active:   1975-1977  Antarctica (World) (continent)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
influenced by ....  Adams, Ansel  
........................  (American photographer, 1902-1984) [500026108]
influenced by ....  Stieglitz, Alfred  
........................  (American photographer, 1864-1946) [500024301]
worked with ....  Auerbach, Ellen  
....................  (American photographer born in Germany, 1906-2004) [500009708]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Porter, Eliot (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer, 1901-1990) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, b.1901) ..... [BHA]
(American photographer, professor and physician; born Winnetka (Illinois, United States), 1901; died Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States), 1990) ..... [CCA]
(American, 1901 -) ..... [JPGM]
(artist, 1901-1990) ..... [GRL]
(American artist, 1901-1990) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, 1901-1990) ..... [IMJ]
(American photographer, 1901-1990) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
פורטר, אליוט ........ [IMJ]
........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Eliot Furness ........ [VP]
............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Eliot Furness Porter ........ [CCA]
.........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Eliot Porter ........ [MoMA Preferred]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
Porter, Eliot ........ [CCA, GRL Preferred, IMJ Preferred, RKD Preferred]
............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50000144
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 243348
Porter, Eliot F. ........ [CCA]
.................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Porter, Eliot Furness ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA, RKD]
...........................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
...........................................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
...........................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 243348

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRL, IMJ, JPGM, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  ARTnews 90/1 (1991)
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  Berkshire Eagle (4 November 1990)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50000144
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50000144
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988) 1988
....................  Porter and Auerbach, Mexican Churches (1987)
....................  Porter, Eliot Porter (1987)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 243348
....................  Roark, Catalogue of the Amon Carter Museum Photography Collection (1993)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q762632
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA, VP]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
.......... Porter and Auerbach, Mexican Churches (1987) 7
.......... Who's Who in American Art, 23rd ed. (1999-2000)
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