Broken Paint Figure
<p>Minor White was a significant figure in 20th-century photography not only as an artist, but also as an editor (he co-founded <em>Aperture</em> magazine), curator (at George Eastman House), and teacher (at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He was greatly influenced by Alfred Stieglitz’s concept of “Equivalents”—in which a photograph not only depicts a subject but also serves as a metaphor for emotions and the photographer’s inner state—as well as Zen philosophy. Interested in “things for what else they are,” White found compelling pictures in the abstract or banal.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1959
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 12.1 × 24.2 cm (4 13/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Mount: 40.7 × 51 cm (16 1/16 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Minor White
Artist
Photography
Minor White was an American photographer and theorist who pioneered a spiritual and deeply introspective approach to the medium in the postwar period. Working primarily in black and white, he created intensely composed landscape and architectural studies that operated as vehicles for personal and emotional revelation rather than documentary record. White founded Aperture magazine in 1952 and taught at the California School of Fine Arts, fundamentally shaping how photographers understood their practice as a form of visual meditation. His sequential work and emphasis on the print as a finished object, rather than mere reproduction of a negative, established new standards for photographic authorship.
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- Minor White
- Year
- 1959
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 12.1 × 24.2 cm (4 13/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Mount: 40.7 × 51 cm (16 1/16 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1959-023724
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified