Great Black and White Photographers PART 2

MINOR WHITE

Minor White is a American photographer who was born in July 9, 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He had earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the University of Minnesota in 1933. He joined the Oregon Camera Club then he started taking on assignments from the Works Progress Administration and attending to the Portland Art Museum. Minor White moved to New York in 1945, he spent two years studying aesthetic and art history at Colombia University. He hanged out with other great photographers. Whites pictures were most of barns, doorways, water, the sky, or simple paint peeling on a wall. He was influenced by Ralph Eugene Meatyard.In 1953 he moved to Rochester, New York and also edited their magazine Image. He taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1956 to 1964. Minor White spent the last ten years of his life teaching at MIT. In 1970 he was given a Guggenheim Fellowship. White was a closeted bisexual man, several of his photographs of male nudes are considered to be the masterworks of the genre but were only published in 1989. Minor White passed away on June 24, 1976.