Rondal Partridge

For example, at the age of four, he spent time staying at the home of photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband, painter Maynard Dixon.

At the age of 16, he became photographic assistant to Dorothea Lange,[3] when she got a job taking pictures documenting rural poverty for the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal agency of the U.S. government.

Lange paid Partridge one dollar a day plus expenses to be her driver and darkroom assistant, and he often spent the night outdoors in a sleeping bag while she slept in a bed in a motel.

[4] In July, 1937, Edward Weston, who had received a one-year Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph the American West, arrived in Yosemite.

Adams had organized an excursion to the High Sierra, hiring three mules at Red's Meadow to take the party to the Minarets and Devils Postpile National Monument.

[4] In 1940, he got a job with a New Deal agency called the National Youth Administration, documenting the problems faced by young people in the final years of the Great Depression.

The photo shows iconic Yosemite peak Half Dome in the background, while the foreground consists of a parking lot filled with cars.