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Allan Porter, the Glossary

Allan Porter (April 29, 1934 – October 5, 2022) was an American-Swiss photographer, journalist, editor, designer, and art director best known for his role as editor of Camera magazine.^[1]

50 relations: Adolf Herz, Alexey Brodovitch, Alfred Stieglitz, Allen Ginsberg, America (magazine), American Federation of Arts, American National Exhibition, Amiri Baraka, Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Art Directors Club of New York, Art Kane, Aschaffenburg, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Brett Weston, Buckminster Fuller, Camera (magazine), Century 21 Exposition, Charles Eames, Christer Strömholm, Dallas Museum of Art, E. E. Cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Edward S. Curtis, Edward Steichen, Franz Kline, George Nelson (designer), Horst H. Baumann, Jack Kerouac, Jay Maisel, John Cage, Josef Koudelka, Josef Sudek, Museum of Modern Art, Offenbach (district), Oliviero Toscani, Photokina, Ray Eames, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Sarah Moon, Seventeen (American magazine), Stephen Shore, Synergetics (Fuller), T. S. Eliot, Truman Capote, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Weegee, William Carlos Williams.
20th-century Swiss photographers
Photographers from Philadelphia

Adolf Herz

Adolf Herz (1862 in Nový Jičín – 1947 in Lucerne) was an Austrian-Swiss engineer and inventor.

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Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch (also Brodovich; Аляксей Брадовіч, Алексе́й Вячесла́вович Бродо́вич; 1898 – April 15, 1971) was a Russian-American photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958.

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Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Allan Porter and Alfred Stieglitz are photography curators.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.

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America (magazine)

America is a monthly Catholic magazine published by the Jesuits of the United States and headquartered in midtown Manhattan.

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American Federation of Arts

The American Federation of Arts (AFA) is a nonprofit organization that creates art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishes exhibition catalogues, and develops education programs.

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American National Exhibition

The American National Exhibition, held from July 25 to September 4, 1959, was an exhibition of American art, fashion, cars, capitalism, model homes and futuristic kitchens.

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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

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Art Directors Club of New York

The Art Directors Club of New York is an organization for art directors in New York City.

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Art Kane

Art Kane (born Arthur Kanofsky; April 9, 1925 – February 3, 1995) was an American fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through the early 1990s.

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Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg (Hessian: Aschebersch) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany.

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Assassination of John F. Kennedy

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts

A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine, or performing arts.

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Brett Weston

Theodore Brett Weston (December 16, 1911 – January 22, 1993) was an American photographer.

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Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.

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Camera (magazine)

Camera is a photography review that began its life in Lucerne, Switzerland, later distributed in many countries and languages.

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Century 21 Exposition

The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Charles Eames

Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker.

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Christer Strömholm

Christer Strömholm (July 22, 1918 – January 11, 2002), also known by the pseudonym Christer Christian, was a Swedish photographer and educator.

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Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St.

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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

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Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg (July 22, 1900 – February 27, 1977) was an American novelist, essayist, and autobiographer.

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Edward S. Curtis

Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 – October 19, 1952, sometimes given as Edward Sherriff Curtis) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people.

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Edward Steichen

Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Allan Porter and Edward Steichen are photography curators.

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Franz Kline

Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter.

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George Nelson (designer)

George Nelson (29 May 1908 – 5 March 1986) was an American industrial designer.

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Horst H. Baumann

Horst H. Baumann (19 June 1934 Aachen – 24 May 2019) was a German architect, designer, light artist, and photographer.

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Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

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Jay Maisel

Jay Maisel (born January 18, 1931) is an American photographer.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Josef Koudelka

Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer.

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Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek (17 March 1896 – 15 September 1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Offenbach (district)

Offenbach is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany and is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region.

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Oliviero Toscani

Oliviero Toscani (born 28 February 1942) is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000.

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Photokina

Photokina (rendered in the promoters' branding as "photokina") is a trade fair held in Europe for the photographic and imaging industries.

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Ray Eames

Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (née Kaiser; December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist and designer who worked in a variety of media.

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Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer.

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Robert Frank

Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker.

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Sarah Moon

Sarah Moon HonFRPS (born Marielle Warin; 1941) is a French photographer.

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Seventeen (American magazine)

Seventeen is an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.

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Synergetics (Fuller)

Synergetics is the empirical study of systems in transformation, with an emphasis on whole system behaviors unpredicted by the behavior of any components in isolation.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

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University of the Arts (Philadelphia)

University of the Arts (UArts) was a private arts university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Weegee

Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Porter

Allan Porter, the Glossary

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20th-century Swiss photographers

Photographers from Philadelphia

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