Word: elisofon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collector-Photographer (LIFE) Eliot Elisofon, who organized the show, put his finger on what the primitive artists were after: not beauty so much as life. In fact, says Elisofon, some of the objects "were believed to be alive by their makers. An important belief of the Polynesians was in mana, an impersonal supernatural power. Sculptures contained mana." Such modern sculptors as Lipchitz, Gonzalez, David Smith and Brancusi are not far from this idea, and for mana they, too, sacrifice resemblance. "The primitive artist and the modern one," says Elisofon, "both produce more of what they feel than of what they...
...photograph islands in the South Seas, Photographer Eliot Elisofon traveled 30,000 miles, partly by copra schooner and outrigger canoe, on the island of Nuku Hiva, made an archaeological discovery of carved idols...
...outstanding feature of the film is the exciting atmospheric photography. With LIFE Photographer Eliot Elisofon as special color consultant, Director Huston has dipped imaginatively into the Technicolor palette to capture on film much of the quality of Lautrec's own work. Shot in authentic Parisian settings, the picture features muted blue-green backgrounds splashed with hot pinks, burnt oranges and yellows as Lautrec's lonely little figure hobbles down Montmartre's cobblestone streets, or as the cancan dancers come on in the heat and haze of the Moulin Rouge in a swirl of black silk stockings...