Minor White: Rites & Passages

Minor White; Biographical Essay by James Baker Hall

ISBN 10: 0893810223 / ISBN 13: 9780893810221

Published by An Aperture Monograph, Millerton, NY, 1978

About this Item

141pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards. In the dust jacket, with moderate rubbing to the panels, and light edge wear. May require extra postage due to weight. His photographs accompanied by excerpts from his diaries and letters. Minor White (1908-1976) was one of the most significant photographic artists active during the thirty years after World War II.

Seller Inventory # 69497

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Minor White: Rites & Passages
• Publisher: An Aperture Monograph, Millerton, NY
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893810223
• ISBN 13: 9780893810221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Later printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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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.