Eliot Elisofon Art photographs
odd: label: General note
content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
name: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
place: label: Place
content: Mali
label: Place
content: Côte d'Ivoire
label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Ghana
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Tanzania
creator: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
culture: label: Culture
content: Asante (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kuba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kyaman (African people)
label: Culture
content: Dogon (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Eliot Elisofon in Africa and in European and American museums and collections during his extensive travels from 1942 through 1972. African kingdoms and peoples represented include Afo, Anyi, Asante, Atie, Baga, Bamana, Baule, Bembe, Benin, Bobo, Boki, Bozo, Chamba, Chokwe, Dan, Dinka, Dogon, Ebrie, Efik, Ejagham, Hausa, Ibibio, Idoma, Ife, Igbo-Ukwu, Ijo, Jenne, Jukun, Kamba, Kissi, Kom, Kongo, Kono, kota, Kpelle, Kuba, Kuyu, Kwele, Lega, Lobi, Loma, Lozi, Luba, Lulua, Lunda, Mambila, Mende, Mossi, Nalu, Ndebele, Ngbaka, Ngoni, Nok, Nupe, Nyamwezi, Pende, Suku, Susu, Tabwa, Teke, Temne, Tetela, Tiv, Tuareg, Urhobo, Vai, Woyo, Yaka, Yoruba, and Zande.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: A photographer best known for his work in Life magazine. Elisofon worked as a free-lance magazine photographer from 1933 to 1937, as a staff photographer for Life from 1933 to 1937 and on photographic assignments for various magazines, including the Smithsonian magazine, from 1942 to 1945. Elisofon traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America documenting the peoples of these lands as well as their arts and environments. A founding member and curatorial associate of the privately owned Museum of African Art, which in 1981 became the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), Elisofon bequeathed his collection of African photographs to the museum when he died in 1973.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5,000 Photographic prints ((10 boxes), b&w, 14 x 11 in. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1972
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Box 2
label: Container
content: Box 3
label: Container
content: Box 4
label: Container
content: Box 5
label: Container
content: Box 6
label: Container
content: Box 7
label: Container
content: Box 8
label: Container
content: Box 9
label: Container
content: Box 10
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Eliot Elisofon, 1973.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1973-002
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs