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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.
Elin Elisofon Collection, EEPA 2014-002, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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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..
Donated by Elin Elisofon in 2014.