ELIOT PORTER Gray's Arch, Red River Gorge, Kentucky, 1968 Color Dye Transfer Print 15.75x12.25" ASG# EP/1522 signed on mount below print right. mounted on 24x20" 4 ply white rag board from Certain Passages Portfolio Daniel Wolf Press 1989 edition of 300 less then 150 completed

Eliot Porter the father of color nature photography took some of his most storied photographs in Kentucky including this verdant forest scene seen through an arched tree trunk.

Eliot Porter (1901-1990) was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1901 to a prosperous family. After earning degrees in chemical engineering and medicine, he spent a decade working as a scientist and teacher. In 1938, Stieglitz gave Porter a solo show at his influential New York art gallery, An American Place. That significant event inspired Porter to make photography his profession. In 1939, he switched to color photographic materials, mastering the delicate multi-step printing techniques. In the 1960s, he began a long-term collaboration with the Sierra Club to produce books focusing on the preservation of natural resources. His first, In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World(1962), The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado(1963), spurred federal reclamation of Western rivers, which ultimately led to passage of the Wilderness Act. In his lifetime, Porter produced twenty-five books, including one that he worked on for much of his life, Birds of North America: A Personal Selection (1972). Credit J. Paul Getty Museum

Excellent. Minor wear