Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

Personal life
Porter was also a friend of Stieglitz's wife the painter Georgia O'Keeffe who accompanied him on several camping expeditions including a rough raft trip down the Colorado River in 1961. Early life
An amateur photographer since childhood when he photographed the Great Spruce Head Island owned by his family Porter earned degrees in chemical engineering and medicine and worked as a biochemical researcher at Harvard University. Porter's reputation increased following the publication of his 1962 book In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World.