Succulent: Agave potatorum, Mill Valley, California, 1973

Item

Title
Succulent: Agave potatorum, Mill Valley, California, 1973
Creator
Don Worth
Artist ID
118
Description
Close view of succulent cactus
Category of Media
Photograph
Media
Silverprint
Accession Number
1977.033
Location
display, Building: Floor: Room: Bin:
Date Acquired
1977
Acquisition Method
Purchase
Dimensions of Work
6.87" x 10.25"
Frame Dimensions
14.25" x 18.25"
Frame Type
Steel
Donor ID
131
Artist Bio
Don Worth (June 2, 1924 – March 18, 2009) was an American photographer. His childhood on an Iowa farm inspired an abiding love of exotic horticulture, which later became the primary focus of his photography. He attended Juilliard as well as the Manhattan School of Music, receiving a graduate degree in piano and composition in 1951. During college, he began photographing and eventually became Ansel Adams' first full-time assistant in 1956. He taught photography at San Francisco State University for thirty years becoming a Professor Emeritus of Art. In 1974, Worth was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an appointment from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980. His photographs are included in countless major museums including the Getty, MOMA and Chicago Art Institute. He was one of the last surviving members of the West Coast school of photography, which included Ansel Adams, Edward and Brett Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Bernhard and many others. Worth's large format photographs are marked by an incisive clarity and quiet meditative aura. His images of plants invoke a spiritual iconography while his landscapes often reflect the transformative powers of fog and mist. Don Worth painstakingly created each of his photographs in his darkroom. -Source: Wikipedia