Personal Life
Porter was also a friend of Stieglitz's wife, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who accompanied him on several camping expeditions including a rough raft trip down the Colorado River in 1961.
Eliot Porter's brother, Fairfield, was a realist painter and art critic. His brother-in-law, Michael W. Straus, was a commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
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