have interpreted the world of nature with a passion often approaching the spiritual. The idea that a work of art can provide a visual "equivalent" to how one perceives nature has played an important role in shaping the reverence that many photographers have expressed for the American landscape. As landscape photography evolved beyond prevailing documentary attitudes of the nineteenth century, camera artists such as Don Worth became singularly devoted to exploring the natural world as metaphor. In his quest to capture the exact moment when nature becomes most revealing, Worth's photographs take us far beyond everyday appearances. These moments, between the perception and recognition of what is seen, are precisely visualized through the meditative way in which Worth uses his camera." Collections Worth is the creator of several collections. Arizona Center for Creative Photography - Tucson, Arizona California Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Norton Somon Museum of Art, Pasadena Oakland Museum of California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco San Jose State University, San Jose Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Florida Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Georgia High Museum of Art, Atlanta Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu Illinois Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Louisiana New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Massachusetts Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Polaroid Photography Collection, Cambridge Nebraska Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln New Jersey Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton New York George Eastman House, Rochester Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Virginia Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Australian National Gallery, Canberra France Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Japan Osaka Photography Museum, Osaka Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Publications Plants: Photographs by Don Worth. Published 1977 by The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California. Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Friends of Photography Gallery, September 9 to October 30, 1977. Don Worth: Photographs 1955-1985. Published 1986 by The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California. . Don Worth: Close to Infinity, Photographs from Six Decades. Fine art photography book published 2005 Photography West Graphics, Inc. Carmel, California. . References 1924 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American photographers Juilliard