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...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...
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...
...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...