PHO150 Digital Photography: Eliot Porter

A stunning presentation of one of America's leading photographers and artistic pioneers, this is Eliot Porter's interpretation of the works of Henry Thoreau.

Explores the diverse patterns, harmonies, and interrelationships among the seeming disorder and wildness of nature.

It was Porter's hope that by photographing birds in their natural habitats, the public would gain a love and appreciation of them and make every effort to stop the destruction of their nesting areas. This collection contains images of very rare and now extinct birds.

Featuring 250 photographs by over 150 different artists, this book surveys fine art photography in American throughout the 20th century.

American photography from the turn of the century through the mid-1960s offers one of the richest and most coherent traditions in the history of the medium. This book explores that tradition in depth through superb reproductions of 183 photographs from the outstanding collection of The Museum of Modern Art." Major figures, such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Harry Callahan, and Robert Frank, are each represented by six or more photographs. Dozens of other distinguished photographers are included as well, and many remarkable but unfamiliar pictures join the landmark works.

The American Southwest has shaped the lives and work of many artists and literary figures over the last century -- Georgia O'Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, N. Scott Momaday, to name a few -- individuals unquestionably drawn to the unrivaled landscape, moved to express its beauty through the written word or through their art, and forever altered by the experience. The survey of photographers and photography in the Southwest between 1870 and 1970 begins with Timothy O'Sullivan and other late nineteenth-century expedition photographers and ends with the color landscape photography of Eliot Porter.

In association with the Chrisler Museum Bringing together the words & images of seventy-five of the world's greatest photographers, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Robert Mapplethorpe, & Sally Mann.

Includes articles by Hal Borland, Sylvia Foster, Joseph Wood Krutch, Peter Matthiessen, Roger Tory Peterson, and others, and color photos by Les Line, David Muench, and Eliot Porter, among others.