Porter was an American photographer who lived from 1901-1990. He is best known for his color photographs of birds and nature. He graduated from Harvard University in 1924 and obtained an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1929 but did not start his career in photography until 1939. He met with people who were huge influences for his start with photography. As a child he liked to take film photographs so when meeting with these influences he rekindled his childhood passions for taking photographs of nature.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1941 to photograph birds and was featured in MOMA which exhibited his Birds of Color in 1943. Throughout the 1950s, Porter traveled all over the world and took photographs of birds and nature.
Sources: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/eliot-porter?all/all/all/all/0
https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/eliot-porters-birds
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/eliot-porter/m088rhs?categoryId=artist