Eliot Elisofon Chronology
1911 |
Born April 17 in New York City |
1933 |
Graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree from Fordham University |
1935-1938 |
Co-founds and operates a commercial studio, August & Co., in New York City |
1936 |
Joins the Photo League |
1937 |
First public exhibition of his photographs First publication of his photographs in LIFE magazine |
1937-1942 |
Freelance photographer for numerous American periodical publications First one-man show, at Marion Willard's East River Gallery |
1938-1942 |
Teaches photography at the New School for Social Research and the American Artists School |
1939 |
Appointed by Beaumont Newhall as the first staff photographer for the Museum of Modern Art |
1940 |
First visit to Vinalhaven Island, Maine, where he will later build a home Marries Mavis Lyons |
1940-1941 |
Serves as president of the Photo League |
1942-1945 |
Joins U.S. Army as photographer; serves in North African, Scandinavian and Pacific Theaters. Full-time staff photographer for LIFE |
1943 |
Traveling exhibition "Tunisian Triumph" opens at Museum of Modern Art |
1946 |
Divorced from Mavis Elisofon |
1947 |
First full introduction to Africa in a five-month assignment for LIFE |
1950 |
Marries Joan Baker Spear |
1952 |
Birth of daughter, Elin Special Color Consultant for John Huston's Moulin Rouge |
1954 |
Birth of daughter, Jill |
1958 |
Special Color Consultant and still photographer for Bell, Book and Candle |
1959 |
Receives research grant in Primitive Art at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University |
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1961 |
Named Research Associate at Harvard University |
1963-1965 |
Color Consultant for The Greatest Story Ever Told |
1964 |
Leaves the LIFE staff but retains his office and continues to contribute stories and photographs |
1965 |
Divorced from Joan Elisofon |
1966 |
Directs the prologue for Khartoum |
1966-1967 |
Creative Director for ABC-TV series, Africa |
1971-1972 |
Produces, writes and directs Group W/Westinghouse series, Black African Heritage Wills his African art collection and his photographic archive of African images to the Smithsonian Institution. Final weekly issue of LIFE |
1973 |
Dies April 7 in New York City |
