Minor White was born on July 9,1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and dies on June 24, 1976 in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Began seriously photographing in1937 White Served in the US Army during WWII. Moved the New York City in 1945, and became friends with Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. Moved to San Francisco in 1964 and worked with photographer Ansel Adams. When White succeeded Adams to be the director of the photography department of the California School of fine arts, he became friends with another photographer Edward Watson. White returned to New York in 1952, he became the editor of the influential photography magazine, Aperture, which he found with othe founders that year. and he also edited the Image, the journal of George Eastman House from 1953 to 1957. He settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1965 and became the professer of creative photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wrote several books but his most popular ones are, Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations (1969) and Minor White: Rite and Passages (1978). He died in June 24, 1976 in Cambridge.
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Pacific, Devils Slide, California 1947
Road and Poplar Trees, in the Vicinity of Naples and Dansville, New York 1955
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