Linton D. Photographing Nature

Natural History Press, 1964. — 292 p.David Linton is a well-known magazine photographer specializing in nature and science. He was born in 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, where his father,
the late anthropologist Ralph Linton, was on the staff of the Field Museum. Since 1948, when he adopted photography as a profession, his photographs have appeared in magazines throughout the world; in textbooks and encyclopedias; and in exhibitions at a number of museums including The American Museum of Natural History and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where examples are included in the permanent collection. He is a past president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. He was a regular contributor of photographs to Scientific American from 1958 to 1962, and is presently a contributing editor of Natural History magazine.Linton has traveled all over the world on photographic assignments. His special interest in the polar regions has taken him six times to the Arctic and to
the South Pole. Whenever his schedule permits, he and his wife explore wild places together, photographing animals, plants, and scenery. He has three
sons, Eric, Scott, and Bruce, and lives — when at home — in Springfield, Pennsylvania.