1. Eliot Elisofon was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist.
12 Facts About Eliot Elisofon
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Eliot Elisofon was married twice, in 1940 to Mavis Lyons, whom he divorced in 1946; and in 1950 to Joan Baker Spear, with whom he had two daughters, Elin and Jill.
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Eliot Elisofon is a founding member of the Photo League in 1936.
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Eliot Elisofon was one of the most active and productive members: he gave guest lectures ; co-organized the Men at Work project with Lewis Hine ; served periodically as president between 1939 and 1941; taught courses on photojournalism and flash photography ; and participated in numerous exhibitions.
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Eliot Elisofon's humble upbringing drove Elisofon to succeed and to improve the world around him.
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Eliot Elisofon pursued his personal work on the side and studied the work of photographers he admired.
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In 1938 his series Playgrounds of Manhattan was exhibited at the New School; for Eliot Elisofon the series was a way to bring attention to playground conditions for children in poor neighborhoods.
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Eliot Elisofon befriended and photographed many artists of the period, including Chaim Gross, Isamu Noguchi and David Smith, and his studio across from the Museum of Modern Art served as a gathering place for artists.
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Eliot Elisofon was hired as a photographer in the Federal Writers' Project series These Are Our Lives in 1939.
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Eliot Elisofon's photographs became an exhibition titled The Tunisian Triumph, which opened in June 1943 at MoMA and traveled to 20 cities in the United States.
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Eliot Elisofon worked as a color consultant in the 1958 film Bell, Book and Candle, starring Kim Novak, James Stewart, Hermione Gingold, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovacs, and the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, by director George Stevens.
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Eliot Elisofon's work appeared in Life magazine for almost 30 years and 19 books of his work were published during his lifetime.