Signed by Porter
Portfolio Two: Iceland.
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1977.
San Francisco: Sierra Club, [1977].
First edition. Signed by the artist. Limited to 110 copies of which 100 were for sale. This being number 104. Photographs were taken in 1975, but Portfolio was published in 1977. Consisting of eleven (of twelve) 8 x 10 1/2 - inch dye-transfer color prints mounted on 20 x 15 inch heavy backing. 4pp. introductory text (by Porter) with list of plates. Tissue guards between each plate. Stamped on the verso of each mount states "Portfolio II, (Iceland), Eliot Porter, print number, and portfolio number, and Printed by the artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1975. A light line of toning across title-page. Photos and mounts about fine. Housed in a blue cloth string-tied folding case. Case with a bit of light scuffing.
Porter's photographs for this portfolio were taken during a two-month Landrover trip through Iceland, accompanied by his son Jonathan and daughter-in-law Zoë.
Eliot Porter had a passion for photography from a young age, however he followed a family tradition of enrolling in Harvard and graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Science. While working as a biochemical researcher at Harvard in the mid-1930s he was introduced to both Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams. Stieglitz offered to show some of Porter's black and white prints at his gallery in New York. This show validated him as a photographer on par with Stieglitz and Adams. He gave up his career in science to fully concentrate on his photography career.
HBS 66056.
$3,500.
Price: $3,500.00
Item #66056