Word: elisofon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland's craggy, 78-year-old Jean Sibelius was interviewed early this month, at his villa north of Helsinki, by LIFE Photographer Eliot Elisofon. His report...
Visitors to the Museum saw such subjects as: "Elisofon and his two Contaxes"*; a telling snap of three gay and very German prisoners; beautifully crosslit heads and torsos, leaning out of a truck window; a three-picture sequence of helmeted U.S. artillerymen reacting to a close shellburst; a detail study of a Sened building's shell-spattered plaster wall...
Hung with the show were passages from Elisofon letters. Sample: "I went on two bombing missions. The first was a sweep on the lookout for Axis shipping. ... I got into a Mitchell's nose. . . . We fan across some shipping. The tankers were escorted by two Axis destroyers. ... I was so petrified by seeing the flak coming up towards us ... that I made practically no pictures over the target. I have no shots of the destroyers or the flak. It was all I could do to get the single shot of the tanker through the nose of the plane...
...York Post Photography Editor John Adam Knight: "One of the amazing things to come out of this war has been the uniformly bad photography produced by the Army Signal Corps. . . . Another phenomenon is the superiority of the pictures sent back by young and relatively inexperienced photographers, such as Elisofon, as compared with the work of oldtime press photographers sent over by the picture syndicates...
...Eliot Elisofon was born in a New York tenement in 1911, has been a professional photographer since 1935. He got his first photographs out of his sister's camera, his next ones from a $14 machine he bought himself. Then came a three-year period in commercial photography in which he "nearly starved...