Eliot Porters photography

Eliot Porter was born in 1901 and took up a career as a biochemical researcher at Harvard. But he could never quite let go of his love of photography. he receieved support from his brother. In 1938 Stieglitz offered to exhibit some of these black-and-white photographs that Porter took, along with several images that Porter made on an excursion to Austria, at his important New York City gallery.  Over much of Porter’s career, black-and-white photography continued to set the artistic standard, and he had to fight his colleagues’ prejudices against the medium. But in 1962 he gained a major boost when the Sierra Club published "In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World." That immensely popular book, combining his evocative color photographs of New England woods with excerpts from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, revolutionized photographic book publishing by setting new standards for design and printing and proving the commercial viability of fine art photography books. Its success set Porter on a lifelong path of creating similar photographic portraits of a wide variety of ecologically significant places the world over.                   http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/porter/about.php

This photo is taken by Eliot Porter, it shows his creativity of how he poses photos with shadows, color and sharpness. You can see the riples through the water and the sun setting over the mountains giving this photo of a lake the many colors you see. Looking at this photo it makes you feel as if you are there because its very centered and focused. This is just one of the many landscape photos. Eliot's specialty is landscape photography with bright colors and targeting natures beauty.

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