Grant Wood
American painter (1891-1942)
Minor White
(1908-1976) American photographer
Minor Martin Whitewas an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator.
White made photographs of landscapes, people, and abstract subject matter.
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Minor Martin Whitewas an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator.
White made photographs of landscapes, people, and abstract subject matter. They showed technical mastery and a strong sense of light and shadow. He taught at the California School of Fine Arts, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in his home. Some of his most compelling images are figure studies of men he taught or with whom had relationships. He helped start the photography magazine Aperture, considered the only periodical produced for, and by, photographers practicing the medium as a fine art. He served as its editor for many years. White was hailed as one of America’s greatest photographers.
5 Quotes by Minor White
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A very receptive state of mind… not unlike a sheet of film itself – seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second’s exposure conceives a life in it.
Minor White(1908-1976) American photographer
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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
Minor White(1908-1976) American photographer
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Minor White(1908-1976) American photographer
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I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice.
Minor White(1908-1976) American photographer
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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Minor White(1908-1976) American photographer