ELIOT PORTER. Waterslide from Above, Long Canyon, September 21, 1965, 12.25x16" Color Dye Transfer Print, signed on mount pencil below print right, verso has Glen Canyon Portfolio Stamp, Daniel Wolf Press 1980 unnumbered from an edition of 250

Porter took this view of Glen Canyon before it was covered by Lake Powell in Arizona and Utah.

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

Minor wear, tape residue top front of mount recto where tape has been removed.