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Biografie Eliot Porter
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1901 |
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Born December 6 in Winnetka, Illinois
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1912 |
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Received first camera as a gift and began photographing birds and school athletic events
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1920 |
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Entered Harvard University to study chemical engineering
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1924 |
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Graduated from Harvard and entered Harvard Medical School
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1926 |
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Studied biochemistry at University of Cambridge, England
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1927 - 1929 |
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Returned to Harvard Medical School and received M.D. in 1929
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1929 - 1939 |
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Taught at Harvard Medical School
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1939 |
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Resigned from teaching to pursue photography
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1941 |
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Received a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph birds in black-and-white and in color
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1946 |
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Became Photographer-at-Large for Audubon Magazine
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1967 |
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Received the Conservation Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior
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1969 |
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Awarded Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by Colby College, Waterville, Maine
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1965 - 1971 |
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Elected to the Sierra Club board of directors
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1971 |
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Became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1979 |
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Received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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1990 |
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Died on November 2 in Santa Fe
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| Ausgewählte Ausstellungen |
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2002
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Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
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1997
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A Passion for Birds: Eliot Porter's Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
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1987
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Eliot Porter, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
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1986
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Eliot Porter’s Southwest, Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
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1986
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Retrospective: Eliot Porter and Beaumont Newhall, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
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1981
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American Photographers and the National Parks, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
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1977 - 1981
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The Great West: Real/Ideal, (circulated by the Smithsonian Institution of Traveling Exhibition Service), University of Colorado, Boulder (and other venues - traveling exhibition)
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1980
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Eliot Porter: Visual Explorations, Art Center, Amarillo, TX (solo)
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1979
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Intimate Landscapes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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1978
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Mexican Church Interiors: Color Dye-Transfers by Eliot Porter and Ellen Auerbach, Sander Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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1973 - 1975
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Eliot Porter Retrospective, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque (and other venues - traveling exhibition)
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1970
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Eliot Porter: Nature’s Photographer, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (solo)
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1965
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Color Photographs by Eliot Porter, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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1963
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The Photographer and the American Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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1963
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An Exhibition of Photographs: Eliot Porter, Art Institute of Chicago (solo)
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1957
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Madonnas and Marketplaces: Mexico in Color, Limelight Gallery, New York
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1955 - 1957
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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)
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1952
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Diogenes with a Camera, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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1951
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Color Photographs by Eliot Porter, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York (solo
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1943
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Birds in Color: Flashlight Photographs by Eliot Porter, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
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1942
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Photographs by Eliot Porter, New York Zoological Society (solo)
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1936
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Exhibition of Photographs by Eliot Porter, Delphic Studios, New York (solo)
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