Minor White
American
1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1976, Boston, Massachusetts
Minor White taught at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) for only seven years, from 1946 to 1953, but his impact on photography in the Bay Area was profound and sustained. A native of Minnesota who spent the bulk of his career in Rochester, New York, White was perhaps his generation's most influential teacher, mentor, and writer about the medium. Art was a quasi-religious dedication for White, who saw photography as a means of tapping into deep, spiritual realms of the human psyche. He exhorted his students, as well as readers of the magazine Aperture, which he cofounded in 1952 and edited for 23 years, to use photography to express and explore their inner selves.
Works in the Collection
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Minor WhiteEel Creek, Oregon1966
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Minor WhiteRitual Branch1958 -
Minor WhiteDevil's Slide, San Mateo County, California1948 -
Minor WhiteHaags Alley, Rochester1960
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Minor WhitePebble Beach, Point Lobos, California, from Sequence 71951 -
Minor WhiteRochester1954
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Minor WhiteZion National Park1960 -
Minor WhiteChurch at Bodie, California1959 -
Minor WhiteOswego, New York1958
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Minor White72 N. Union Street, Rochester1956 -
Minor WhiteColumbus Avenue, San Francisco1949; printed later
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Minor WhiteRochester1959
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Minor WhiteFront Street, Portland, Oregon1939; printed later
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Minor WhiteGrand Teton National Park, Wyoming, from Sequence 151959 -
Minor WhiteBadlands, South Dakota, from Sequence 151959 -
Minor WhiteShore Acres State Park, Oregon, from Sequence 151959
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Minor WhiteVicinity of White Horse Pass, Nevada, from Sequence 151959