David Johnson, a celebrated photographer who was the first Black student of Ansel Adams, has died at the age of 97.
photographer and civil rights activist Johnson died at his home in Greenbrae, north of San Francisco, earlier this month.
Johnson got his first camera at a pawn shop by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door and became fascinated by photography. Budding photographers were clamoring to get into the program which boasted a star-studded faculty that included Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and Dorothea Lange.Ansel told Johnson that race was no issue but that there were no vacancies in the class. However, a student eventually dropped out, making room for Johnson.
Johnson later recalled what the gesture meant to him and how moved he was by the faculty’s generosity: “They put their money to buy me a new camera. They wanted me to succeed.”
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