Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Don Worth Close to Infinity by Don Worth Don Worth: Close to Infinity by Don Worth. Close to Infinity. Autographed Edition Retail: $300. 65 Black and White Laser Fultone Reproductions. 12" x 12.5" ISBN: 0-09616515-6-3. To purchase this item, please follow this link to Fine Art Photography Books at Photography West Graphics. A separate window will open. Don Worth has worked with a quiet perseverance for nearly sixty years creating images that rank him among the most profound photographers of the West Coast School. With his intense and studied focus, Worth has persistently sought an interior reality beyond the material boundaries of his subjects. While surrendering none of the natural organic character, his plants emanate a contemplative energy and finally evoke a spiritual iconography. Worth’s large format landscape photographs are marked by an incisive clarity and quiet meditative aura and often reflect the subtle transformative powers of fog and mist. His unwavering and painstaking dedication has resulted in some of the most beautiful masterworks of twentieth century photography. CLOSE TO INFINITY presents for the first time a collection of Worth’s finest work in a single elegantly bound monograph. Many photographs reproduced here have never been exhibited and were known only to the artist’s closest friends. The addition of this unseen work unveils for the first time the full range of Worth’s genius. A landmark volume, CLOSE TO INFINITY unfolds a stunning array of master prints, revealing a sustained and reverent photographic vision that is as breathtaking as it is profound. Leland Rice contributes an essay that examines Worth’s artistic contribution, from his earliest years of apprenticeship and instruction, through the images that established his place in photographic history to the concluding masterworks that represent his mature achievement. Don Worth was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974 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. * Special Collector’s Edition includes your choice of one original Don Worth hand printed photograph shown below accompanied by a signed slip cased, numbered deluxe edition of the book. The photographs, are approximately 11x14 and are individually hand printed by the artist. Each photograph is signed and numbered in an edition of seventy-five. PHOTOGRAPHY WEST GRAPHICS. Don Worth has worked with a quiet perseverance for nearly sixty years creating images that rank him among the most profound photographers of the West Coast School. With his intense and studied focus, Worth has persistently sought an interior reality beyond the material boundaries of his subjects. While surrendering none of the natural organic character, his plants emanate a contemplative energy and finally evoke a spiritual iconography. Worth’s large format landscape photographs are marked by an incisive clarity and quiet meditative aura and often reflect the subtle transformative powers of fog and mist. His unwavering and painstaking dedication has resulted in some of the most beautiful masterworks of twentieth century photography. Close to Infinity presents for the first time a collection of Worth’s finest work in a single elegantly bound monograph. Many photographs reproduced here have never been exhibited and were known only to the artist’s closest friends. The addition of this unseen work unveils for the first time the full range of Worth’s genius. A landmark volume, Close to Infinity unfolds a stunning array of master prints, revealing a sustained and reverent photographic vision that is as breathtaking as it is profound. Leland Rice contributes an essay that examines Worth’s artistic contribution, from his earliest years of apprenticeship and instruction, through the images that established his place in photographic history to the concluding masterworks that represent his mature achievement. Don Worth was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974 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. Don Worth. Don Worth has worked with a quiet perseverance for nearly sixty years creating images that rank him among the most profound photographers of the West Coast School. With his intense and studied focus, Worth has persistently sought an interior reality beyond the material boundaries of his subjects. While surrendering none of the natural organic character, his plants emanate a contemplative energy and finally evoke a spiritual iconography. Worth s large format landscape photographs are marked by an incisive clarity and quiet meditative aura and often reflect the subtle transformative powers of fog and mist. His unwavering and painstaking dedication has resulted in some of the most beautiful masterworks of twentieth century photography. CLOSE TO INFINITY presents for the first time a collection of Worth s finest work in a single elegantly bound monograph. Many photographs reproduced here have never been exhibited and were known only to the artist s closest friends. The addition of this unseen work unveils for the first time the full range of Worth s genius. A landmark volume, CLOSE TO INFINITY unfolds a stunning array of master prints, revealing a sustained and reverent photographic vision that is as breathtaking as it is profound. Leland Rice contributes an essay that examines Worth s artistic contribution, from his earliest years of apprenticeship and instruction, through the images that established his place in photographic history to the concluding masterworks that represent his mature achievement. Don Worth was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974 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. Don Worth. Don Worth has worked with a quiet perseverance for nearly sixty years creating images that rank him among the most profound photographers of the West Coast School. With his intense and studied focus, Worth has persistently sought an interior reality beyond the material boundaries of his subjects. While surrendering none of the natural organic character, his plants emanate a contemplative energy and finally evoke a spiritual iconography. Worth s large format landscape photographs are marked by an incisive clarity and quiet meditative aura and often reflect the subtle transformative powers of fog and mist. His unwavering and painstaking dedication has resulted in some of the most beautiful masterworks of twentieth century photography. CLOSE TO INFINITY presents for the first time a collection of Worth s finest work in a single elegantly bound monograph. Many photographs reproduced here have never been exhibited and were known only to the artist s closest friends. The addition of this unseen work unveils for the first time the full range of Worth s genius. A landmark volume, CLOSE TO INFINITY unfolds a stunning array of master prints, revealing a sustained and reverent photographic vision that is as breathtaking as it is profound. Leland Rice contributes an essay that examines Worth s artistic contribution, from his earliest years of apprenticeship and instruction, through the images that established his place in photographic history to the concluding masterworks that represent his mature achievement. Don Worth was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974 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. Don Worth: Close to Infinity by Don Worth. Don Worth (1924 - 2009) Don Worth (1924–2009) was born in Nebraska and his early life was dedicated to music. He attended the Juilliard School of Music where he received the Bachelor of Music degree (1949) and the Manhattan School of Music where he earned Master of Music degree (1951) in piano and composition. He began serious photography in 1949, and worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams from 1956 to 1960. He began teaching photography in the Art Department of San Francisco State University in 1962 and retired as Emeritus Professor in 1993. Worth was born in Hayes County, Nebraska in 1924 and raised on a small farm in Iowa. His childhood experiences in a rural setting shaped his artistic sensibilities and sparked a life-long interest in horticulture. Worth began cultivating exotic plants before age ten, and his initial artistic expression – through music – was also as a child. He began studying piano at age eight and in 1946 traveled to New York to study piano and composition. In New York he encountered the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe and later the photography of Ansel Adams. He was amazed how their art revealed a structure and an emotional impact that he had pursued through music. He purchased a camera and began his exploration of photography. In the mid-1950s, while doing postgraduate work in music at Mills College in Oakland, he had met Ansel Adams. Worth’s photography impressed Adams, as did their shared interest in music. In 1956 Don was hired as Adams’s full-time assistant, a post he held until 1960. The artists maintained a close personal friendship until Adams’s death in 1984. Worth eventually put aside a career in music and devoted his creative energies to photography and horticulture. For forty-six years, Worth cultivated his nearly half-acre garden in Mill Valley as a personal botanical garden. It was recognized as one the best collections of palms and tree ferns in the Bay Area, and Worth was known as a great plant propagator and expert on palms. His garden served as both his personal retreat and the focus of hundreds of his photographs. Some of Worth’s most beloved artworks use plants as their subject matter, including hybrid succulents of his own invention.