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ELIOT PORTER Photographs and text by Eliot Porter Foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss

SIGNED COPY (SEE PHOTO)

ThIS BOOK WAS PRODUCED in conjunction with Eliot Porter, an exhibition organized by the Amon Carter Museum and shown at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, October 31, 1987 - January 3, 1988; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, April 15 - June 5, 1988; the Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, July 3 - August 21, 1988; and other locations to be determined.

MANY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS in this book were previously published. Substantial portions of the text previously appeared in Galapagos: The Flow of Wildness (Sierra Club, 1968), Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin (March - April 1970), Birds of North America (E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), and Antarctica (E. P. Dutton and Company, 1978). Please see the bibliography at the back of this book for a complete listing of Eliot Porter's publications.

FIRST EDITION

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Porter, Eliot, 1901

Eliot Porter.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Porter, Eliot, 1901 - - Exhibitions. 2. Nature photography - Exhibitions. 1. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. 11. Title.

TR721.P66 1987 779'-3 ISBN 0 - 8212 - 1675 - 9

Jacket photograph: Bunchberry flowers, Silver Lake, New Hampshire, June 5, 1953

Jacket design by Eleanor Morris Caponigro

Also from New York Graphic Society Books: Maine by Eliot Porter

86 color illustrations

10¼ × 1½ inches, 160 pp.

Item Condition

Fair to Good condition. Internal pages are in excellent condition. Spine is tight. Hardcover has some warping on back panel due to exposure to water. There are signs water made contact with the face pages and the next page in on both back and front. Otherwise, this book is in very good shape. Plates are beautiful. See photos as they are part of the condition description for the dust jacket and the damage mentioned.

Summary

"TRUE ART," wrote Henry David Thoreau, "is but the expression of our love of nature." No artist embodies this belief more than Eliot Porter. One of the masters of color photography, Porter has awakened our senses and touched us deeply with his vision of nature; his succession of remarkable books has transformed the attitudes of more than one generation toward the beauty of our world. Now, at the age of eighty-five, this poet of the camera reveals in personal reminiscence a lifetime of discovery, adventure, and devotion to his art.

Combining Porter's life story with more than 130 of his finest photographs, Eliot Porter is the first complete tribute to his long and stirring career. In this autobiographical text he shares his difficult decision to leave science for photography, his pioneering work with color film, his family life in Santa Fe, and his extensive travels - to Antarctica, Africa, Europe, China, and the Americas. Throughout his life Porter has steered his own course, never losing his sense of wonder and curiosity. He emerges, in this memoir, as a man of depth and complexity: artist and explorer, scientist and ardent conservationist.

The book's color and duotone plates are superbly printed and include both classics and rare, never-before-published photographs. A foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss, Adjunet Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, further illuminates Porter's methods and suggests ways of looking at his photo-graphs. This retrospective volume, Sandweiss writes, is a celebration of "the energy and tenacity of a tireless photographer who after fifty years of work still observes the natural world with an unchanging pleasure and great delight."

Published in conjunction with the Amon Carter Museum, Eliot Porter accompanies the first major retrospective exhibition of Porter's work, originating at the Amon Carter and traveling nationwide.

About the Author

ELIOT FURNESS PoRTER was born in 1901, in Illinois. After a career in medicine and science, he turned to photography, concentrating on nature as his subject and color as his medium. His first major exhibition was organized by Alfred Stieglitz at An American Place in 1939. Among the many subsequent exhibitions that have distinguished his career was the 1979 one-man exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Intimate Landscapes." His publications include numerous volumes in the acclaimed Sierra Club series, as well as books on Greece, China, Antaretica, the birds of North America, and Maine. Porter lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

About the Author of the Foreword

MARTHA A. SANDwEisS is Adjunet Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum and the author of numerous texts on American photography, including Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace (1986) and Masterworks of American Photograpby (1982)

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