Background
Don Worth was born on June 2, 1924, in Hayes Center, Nebraska, the United States.
Don Worth was born on June 2, 1924, in Hayes Center, Nebraska, the United States.
His childhood on an Iowa farm-inspired an abiding love of exotic horticulture, which later became the primary focus of his photography.
Don Worth earned a Bachelor of Arts (1949) and Master of Arts (1951) in Music from Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
During college, Don Worth began photographing and eventually became Ansel Adams' first full-time assistant in 1956. He has been a professor of art at San Francisco State University since 1962.
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.