Elliott Porter

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elliott Porter
Occupation	Football Offensive Lineman
Date Of Birth	Dec 6, 1901(1901-12-06)
Age	123
Date Of Death	November 2, 1990, Santa Fe, NM
Birthplace	Winnetka
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Elliott Porter Biography

Elliott Porter is one of the most popular and richest Football Offensive Lineman who was born on December 6, 1901 in Winnetka, Illinois, United States.

Porter credited his father, James Porter, with instilling in him a love for nature as well as a commitment to scientific rigor. An amateur photographer since childhood, Eliot Porter found early inspiration photographing the birds on Maine’s Great Spruce Head Island owned by his family. Porter earned degrees in chemical engineering (A. B. 1924, Harvard College) and medicine (M.D. 1929, Harvard University), and worked as a biochemical researcher at Harvard. One of Eliot Porter’s five siblings was the painter and art critic Fairfield Porter.

Eliot Porter’s brother, Fairfield Porter, was a realist painter and art critic. His brother-in-law, Michael W. Straus, was a commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Eliot was married to Marian Brown from 1927 until their divorce in 1934. He married Aline Kilham in 1936 and the two moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico together, living in Tesuque, New Mexico from 1946.

Elliott Porter Net Worth

Elliott Porter is one of the richest Football Offensive Lineman from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elliott Porter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Eliot Furness Porter (December 6, 1901 – November 2, 1990) was an American photographer best known for his intimate color photographs of nature.

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Who is Elliott Porter Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Alice Ranked on the list of most popular Football Offensive Lineman. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Elliott Porter celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

What is Eliot Porter's photography style?

Eliot Porter developed a vision of the landscape that looked closer, caught the natural chaos of the wild but in a way that showed the hidden structures. He is the forefather of colour landscape photography and anyone who calls themselves a landscape photographer should at least be aware of his work.

What did Eliot Porter photograph the most?

Porter continued to photograph birds each spring through much of his life, but he gained most of his acclaim through the color landscape photographs that he created through the rest of each year.

How did Eliot Porter learn photography?

Biography. Porter began to photograph birds and landscapes with a Kodak box camera as a child at his family’s summer home in Maine. He earned a BS in chemical engineering from Harvard University in 1924, and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1929, then taught and researched there until 1938.

Who was Eliot Porter inspired by?

The elegant black-and-white landscapes he made at the time reflected the influence of photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Ansel Adams. In 1938, Stieglitz gave Porter a solo show at his influential New York art gallery, An American Place.

How do you take a picture like Eliot Porter?

Porter used a medium format view camera designed to hold 4 x 5 inch sheets of film, mounted on a tripod. To photograph birds, a beloved subject, he used a system of strobe lights. He would typically spend several hours composing the scene.