Elias A. Bonine

Elias A. Bonine and Isaiah West Taber; Pimos Indians, Arizona, ca.1875

Elias Atkinson Bonine (c. 1843–1916) was an American photographer. Bonine was known for his portraits of 19th-century Native Americans.

Biography Bonine was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in about 1843. Bonine had two brothers who were both photographers, Robert Atkinson Bonine (1836–1912) and Archibald Franklin Bonine (1846–1907).

Bonine was a prolific photographer of the indigenous peoples of North America, who he often staged in his photographs. He worked primarily in the carte-de-visite format. His work differed from that of anthropologists and government survey photographers, as his intended audience was the general public. the Getty Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.