Minor White: The Eye That Shapes (Signed First Edition)

WHITE, Minor and Peter C. Bunnell, Maria B. Pellerano, Joseph B. Rauch

ISBN 10: 0943012104 / ISBN 13: 9780943012100

Published by Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1989

About this Item

First edition. Oblong hardcover. 289 pages. Published in conjuction with a traveling exhibition that had seven stops. Features text by Peter Bunnell. A comprehensive and scholarly examination of White's extensive body of work. Includes 10 color and 285 duotones, chronological survey of images, bibliography of published writings, selected bibliography, and checklist. A tight very near fine copy with some slight tapping to the top front corners in a very near fine dust jacket with the same slight tapping and with laid in card for the event with Bunnell. Signed by Bunnell on the half title. A very fresh copy of the less common cloth issue.

Seller Inventory # 180476

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Minor White: The Eye That Shapes (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0943012104
• ISBN 13: 9780943012100
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 6.312 pounds
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition opening at The Museum of Modern Art and travelling until 1991, this is a publication of White's work using the artist's extensive personal archive bequeathed to Princeton University on his death.

Reviews

A distinguished professor and curator at Princeton, Bunnell was a close friend of Minor White, one of the most important photographers in the 30 years following World War II. For this major work and the retrospective exhibition it accompanies (traveling until 1991), Bunnell draws on journals, correspondence, and files of negatives and prints in the extensive Minor White Archive bequeathed to Princeton in 1976. The production is stunning: 295 photographs, ten in color and 285 black-and-whites in duotone, are organized by iconography and by chronology. White's artistry is richly illuminated by the wealth of newly published material and by Bunnell's insightful exploration of biographical elements in the work of this highly personal and spiritual photographer. A landmark book.
- Ann Copeland, formerly with Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J.
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