In a world dominated by black-and-white, Porter was working against the grain. But in exhibitions like “Eliot Porter’s Nature,” we can understand why: Porter was a colorist. Color underlies ...

Eliot Porter (American, 1901-1990) created a new way of viewing the world by introducing color to landscape photography, which today has become commonplace. Porter began working in color in 1939, long ...

Eliot Porter explored the planet's skin, seeking out the intimate with images of birds and flowers. Beautiful, yet static to modern eyes. So close to the Earth - Los Angeles Times ...

And this makes sense: The work being done by today’s nature and landscape photographers generally looks much more like Porter’s than Adams’s. It’s not only that it is in color–Porter having pioneered ...

He also has a place in American photography. The enormous popularity of Eliot Porter’s “In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World” (1962) made that book a landmark in photographic history.