Porter, Eliot. Birds of North America by Eliot Porter. Signed Copy psychologically complex portraits and still

psychologically complex portraits and still lifes that challenge the boundaries of reality

Porter shifts the book's focus from historical celebration to modern conservation crisis

Includes list of more than 100 works in the exhibition

and photographer Nicholas Nixon joined forces to present portraits of American schoolchildren in three Boston-area settings

and his fiercely independent approach to the medium

Porter, Eliot. Birds of North America by Eliot Porter. Signed Copy psychologically complex portraits and stillA&W Visual Library, [1975]. Large format, 140pp. Wraps, near mint with a touch of wear at extremities, with many photos in black and white and color. [Includes the classic account of how Porter, in order to photograph the Cape May Warbler in its nest, gradually cut three foot sections out of the tree trunk until it was six feet off the ground.] Summary: Birds of North America: A Personal Selection (first published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in 1972) is a