Eliot Porter: Readings and Resources

Biography from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art which preserves the majority of Porter's photographs, papers, correspondence, equipment, and personal library.

Over 3800 digitized documents in addition to finding aids for the extensive collection of documents by and about Porter held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Includes correspondence between Porter and collaborators and other artists like Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ralph Steiner.

Porter's 1943 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, arguably the first solo show dominated by color photography at a major art museum in the United States. Includes images of the gallery (with links to high-resolution versions of some of the photographs displayed) and the original press release distributed to promote the show.

1950 exhibition composed of solely color photography at the Museum of Modern Art during which images by Porter were displayed alongside those by Ansel Adams and Richard Avedon, among others. Includes photos of the gallery and the original press release distributed to promote the show.

Article in the magazine Aperture exploring how photographer Eliot Porter's upbringing contributed to his art and commitment to environmental causes.

Article from the journal Environmental History examining "the use of Eliot Porter's photographs in the Sierra Club's celebrated 1962 coffee-table book "In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World"."

Article from the journal Art Education "examines the impact of American photographer Eliot Porter on landscape photography through the example of his influence on Robert Glenn Ketchum. Through his art, Porter influenced the acceptance of color photography as an art form, the imagery of other photographers, as well as awareness of environmental causes."

Scholarly discussion of the work of photographer Charles Pratt by Finis Dunaway in the journal Raritan featuring a discussion of the images of Eliot Porter and how they differed from many contemporary nature photographers.

Writer Kenneth Brower begins this article on the changes the digital revolution has brought to nature and landscape photography by reminiscing about an early visit to the Galapagos Islands with photographer Eliot Porter. Appeared in The Atlantic.

36 photographs digitized by the Museum of Modern Art from their collections.

70 photographs digitized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from their collection, including all of the images from the "Intimate Landscapes" exhibition.