Tree Near Palmar Notre, Costa Rica

About the Photographer

Worth, Don

American, 1924-2009

Don Worth completed his Bachelors of Music (1949) at the Juilliard School of Music and a Masters of Music (1951) at the Manhattan School of Music in piano and composition. He worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams from 1956 to 1960 and taught photography in the Art Department of San Francisco State University from 1962 until 1993. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) and was granted a Photography Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts (1980).