born July 9, 1908, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S
died June 24, 1976, Cambridge, Mass.
U.S. photographer and editor.
He began to photograph seriously in 1938 when he went to work for the Works Progress Administration . In 1946 he studied with Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz before moving to San Francisco, where he worked closely with Ansel Adams . He succeeded Adams as head of the photography department at the California School of Fine Arts and later taught at MIT. He founded and edited (1952–76) the photography magazine Aperture and also edited Image (1953–57). His efforts to extend photography's range of expression made him one of the century's most influential photographers.