Eliot Porter: More About the Artist

"Photographs, essays, and edited transcripts of taped interviews with the artists", including Eliot Porter.

"A landmark collection of essays on the intersections of visual art, cultural studies, and environmental history in America." Includes ""Every corner is alive": Eliot Porter as an environmentalist and artist" by Rebecca Solnit and "The sumptuary ecology of Buckminster Fuller's designs" by Jonathan Massey.

Includes the chapter "Models of consciousness: myth and memory in the work of Georgia O'keeffe, Eliot Porter, and Todd Webb".

10 dye transfer prints of images from Eliot Porter's "Intimate Landscapes" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first solo show of color photography at that institution. One of an edition of 250, the prints are signed by Porter and were created with the dye transfer process for which Porter was famous. Gift of Joseph C. French Jr.

Catalogue from Porter's solo show of the same title at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979, the first exhibition of color photography in that museum's history.

Realization of long-time desire of Porter's to pair his photographs with quotes from Thoreau. The volume is credited by some art critics as having "effectively popularized the wedding in the American environmental imagination of Thoreau’s treatment of wildness
and wilderness protection." (Hodder, 2011).

"Explores the Chinese mind and spirit, illuminated by a stunning collection of photographs" by Eliot Porter, with text by his son, Jonathan.

"... text by the distinguished novelist complements a collection of photographs of the American landscape in a work that depicts all aspects of American life from the Rocky Mountains to the state of Maine."

"Photographic guide to the world's most remote continent" with images by Eliot Porter.

Photos of landscapes and flora by Eliot Porter paired with textual vignettes by Edward Abbey.

A collection of some of Porter's bird photographs, notable for how they capture the birds, their environment, and their behavior.

"... a collection of photographs taken by Eliot Porter which "represent an eloquent call to respect and value nature, while taking careful note of humanity's varied relationship with it.""

Overview of Porter's life and career, generously illustrated with his photographs.

Collects more than ninety black-and-white photographs of the landscapes and towns of the American Southwest by Eliot Porter.

Landscape photographs of New York's Adirondack Mountains by Eliot Porter.

Two-volume overview of the history, both natural and human, of the Galapagos, illustrated with photographs by Eliot Porter.

"Shows ancient Greek roads, stairways, walls, temples, theaters, and ruins and discusses Greek history and culture."

"Captures the landscape, geological formations, lichens, and flowers in photographs and supplies the narrative of the expedition that took the pictures." Photographs by Eliot Porter and text by his son, Jonathan.

"Photos and text of the Egyptian temples, tombs, and pyramids include the Ramesseum, the temples at Karnak, Lexor, Ramesses II, and Nefertari."

Photographer Porter and author Gleick "explore the diverse patterns, harmonies, and interrelationships among the seeming disorder and wildness of nature."

"... account of the filling of Glen Canyon after a dam being built on the Colorado River" with photographs by Eliot Porter.

Photographic tribute to the Maine islands where photographer Eliot Porter's family had a home.

An essay by naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch about wild places and the need to preserve them illustrated with photographs by Eliot Porter.

Extensive natural history survey of the North American continent illustrated with photographs by Eliot Porter.

First-hand expedition report of Powell's first boat expedition from the headwaters of the Green River in Wyoming to Nevada, a route which took his party through the Grand Canyon. Illustrated with photographs by Eliot Porter.

Coffee table bird book with copious photographs by Eliot Parker and others.

Coffee table bird book with copious photographs by Eliot Parker and others.

Documents Matthiessen's travels in East Africa, as well as the history and people of the region, illustrated with photographs by Eliot Porter.