Collection ELISOFON Elin
odd: label: General
content: Title provided by EEPA staff.
name: label: Collector
content: Elisofon, Elin
place: label: Place
content: Puerto Rico
label: Place
content: Congo (Democatic Republic)
label: Place
content: Poland
topic: label: Topic
content: Elisofon, Eliot
creator: label: Collector
content: Elisofon, Elin
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: American photographer Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) worked as a free-lance magazine photographer from 1933 to 1937, as a staff photographer for Life from 1933 to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 private 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. To honor Elisofon's contribution to the understanding of African art and culture, NMAfA named its archives after him..
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Books (color.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970-2004
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Elin Elisofon in 2014.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2014-002
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Books
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged chronologically.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Books
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of four books that portray the photography and/or text of Eliot Elisofon: A Week in Agata's World: POLAND. Photographs and text by Eliot Elisofon. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1970; A Week in Leonora's World: PUERTO RICO. Photographs and text by Eliot Elisofon. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1971; ZAIRE: A Week in Joseph's World. Photographs and text by Eliot Elisofon. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1973; and Hollywood Life: The Glamorous Homes of Vintage Hollywood. Photographs by Eliot Elisofon. Introduction by Gavin Lambert. An Interview with Brooke Hayward and Leonard Stanley. Afterword by Elin and Jill Elisofon. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2004.