Elaine Mayes (born October 1, 1936) is an American photographer and a retired professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
[1] Her students included documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Michel Negroponte, Roger Sherman, Buddy Squires, Kirk Simon, and Karen Goodman.
Her videography was included in "Silverlake Life" (1992), an award-winning documentary that observed the struggles of film maker Tom Joslin and his partner with AIDS.
[12] Her Haight Ashbury portraits were exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, and her work was included in group shows at MOMA.
[18][19] In 1991 Mayes received a Guggenheim Fellowship[20] to photograph in Hawaii, and with an Atherton Foundation grant (2003) published this work in a limited edition book titled "Ki'i No Hawai'i" in 2009.