About

 He began to photograph birds and landscapes with a Kodak box camera as a child. In 1933 he was powerfully moved by the photographs of Ansel Adams, who encouraged him to work with a large-format camera.

Throughout his career, he also travelled and photographed locations of cultural significance. The locations that he photographed were Utah, California, Maine, Antarctica, Iceland, East Africa, Mexico, Egypt, China, Greece, and Czechoslovakia. 

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 His work

He developed a vision of the landscape that looked closer, caught the natural chaos of the wild but in a way that showed the hidden structures. He is the forefather of colour landscape photography.

He would frequently intensify blues, greens and reds while enriching the texture of trees, rocks and flowing streams to give his images a painterly aesthetic.