![]() ![]() Yet his commitment to environmental subjects much of interest today and his wonderful eye surely make him a candidate for a revival. It suits a certain number of people to overlook him, notably in the fine print market. ![]() Porter continues even now to be a photographer overlooked by fashion. And then there’s László Moholy-Nagy, of course, who was committed to working in colour after his arrival in the US in the late 1930s.Įliot Porter showed colour photographs at MoMA, by the way, in 1943. ![]() And whether one considers such luminaries as Louise Dahl-Wolfe or Paul Outerbridge as ‘artists’ is a question for another place, but both certainly made work of high artistic intent to be distributed through commercial channels. Edward Steichen worked in colour too, often brilliantly. Alfred Stieglitz had of course made colour photographs by the Autochrome process and shown them at his 291 gallery as early as 1909. It has become standard to read that William Eggleston was the first person to use colour as an ‘artistic choice’ and that his show at the MoMA in 1976 was the first show of colour at the museum. Saul Leiter Retrospective Essay by Francis Hodgson ![]()
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