Word: elisofon
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...Gallery closes on Aug. 18, Washingtonians will still be able to consult an important African collection: that of the Museum of African Art, housed in seven Victorian houses and now in its twelfth year, newly fortified by the collection and archives (almost 100,000 photographs) of the late Eliot Elisofon. No other photographer has ever covered Africa with more energy and knowledge than Elisofon, who contributed to LIFE for 35 years and was one of the first trustees of the Museum of African Art. Elisofon's collection of African art comprised more than 600 pieces, including some masterpieces...
Died. Eliot Elisofon, 61, staff photographer for LIFE from 1942 until the mid-'60s; following a stroke; in Manhattan. "I wanted to point a camera," Elisofon once said, "at things that I thought needed attention." Quitting a career as a commercial photographer, he covered World War II for LIFE in Africa as well as in the Arctic, Europe and the Pacific. A camera artist who had a unique mastery of color, Elisofon had a particular passion for the Dark Continent and its artifacts, which he lovingly recorded in his 1958 book The Sculpture of Africa...
...shaping of Follies as "a moderator, a mediator, someone to take the blame." Not quite so. If writers had the final play on words, it was Prince who enjoyed the ultimate word on plays. He discovered what came to be the show's essential conception in Eliot Elisofon's picture of Gloria Swanson amid the ruins of Manhattan's Roxy Theater, a barococo movie palace that was demolished in 1960. "That sparked the whole notion of rubble?how it relates to the past and present." Prince set Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who collaborated with him on Forum and Company...