Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:07 PM PDT
Laramie, WY.- The Univrsity of Wyoming Art Museum is pleased to present "The West of Eliot Porter: Images of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah" on view at the museum until December 22nd. 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 before his fellow photographers accepted the medium. Trained as a chemical engineer and a medical doctor, Porter began his career in photography in the early 1930s by making black-and-white prints in his spare time while working as a bacteriologist and teaching at Harvard University. It was around this time that his brother, Fairfield Porter, a realist artist and art critic, introduced him to photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz. Offering guidance, Stieglitz began to critique Porter’s black-and-white photographs and in 1938 exhibited Porter’s work in his New York gallery, An American Place.
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