Aperture no. 80: Minor White: Rites & Passages. His Photographs Accompanied By Excerpts From his Diaries and Letters. [Artist monograph].

White, Minor (artist.); Hall, James Baker (text.); Speer, Hal (text.); Hoffman, Michael E. (text.).

ISBN 10: 0893810223 / ISBN 13: 9780893810221

Published by Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc., 1978

About this Item

[Artist monograph]. 4to. 141 pp. Soft, glossy green and black and white pictorial wraps. Very good with marginal sunning along spine and bottom of front wrap. Black and white plates, including frontis. Includes a foreword by Hal Speer, an introduction by Michael E. Hoffman and a biographical essay by James Baker Hall. Number 80 of the Aperture series. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.

Seller Inventory # 18-8778

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aperture no. 80: Minor White: Rites & Passages. His Photographs Accompanied By Excerpts From his Diaries and Letters. [Artist monograph].
• Publisher: Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893810223
• ISBN 13: 9780893810221
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalog--Artist Monograph

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Synopsis

His photographs accompanied by excerpts from his diaries and letters. Biographical essay by James Baker Hall.

About the Author

Minor White was born in Minneapolis in 1908 and educated at the University of Minnesota. His first serious photography was done in Portland, Oregon, for the Works Progress Administration in 1938, and his first one-man exhibition was at the Portland Art Museum in 1942.

In 1946, Minor White joined the faculty at the California School of Fine Arts. Newly stimulated by meetings with Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, he embarked on his own photography. In 1952, he founded Aperture, a quarterly of photography. The following year, he joined the staff of George Eastman House and two years later became associated with the faculty of the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1965 until his death in 1976, he taught photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An internationally recognized artist, his photographs are represented in major museums and private collections. There have been over forty one-man exhibitions of his work.