Minor White: Rites and Passages

James Baker Hall

ISBN 10: 089381069X / ISBN 13: 9780893810696

Published by NY, NY: Aperture, 1978

About this Item

8vo. Softcover. 141 pp. Very good. B&W plates. Provenance: Richard A. Lorenz (1952-2001), author, art conservator, curator and artist, Berkeley, California. As a trustee of The Imogen Cunningham Trust, Mr. Lorenz organized and curated exhibitions of Cunningham's photographs.

Seller Inventory # 75-3535

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Minor White: Rites and Passages
• Publisher: NY, NY: Aperture
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089381069X
• ISBN 13: 9780893810696
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

"Minor White is one of the greatest of photographers. I do not make this statement lightly ...The sheer beauty of the medium of photography is tuned to the exact meaning of the visualized image." --Ansel Adams This selection of Minor White's superb photographs is accompanied by extensive, revealing excerpts from White's letters and amplified by James Baker Hall's perceptive observations of the artist-teacher at work.

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.