Monday, September 17, 2012

Great Black & White Photogaphers, Part 2


Windowsill Daydreaming


 Minor White
       
           Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 9, 1908. White had died in Boston, Massachusetts on June 24, 1976 at the age of 67. He had received a degree in botany, from the University of Minnesota in 1993. He had first had his creativity in poetry and had 100 sequences, and had been working as a bar tender at the University Club. Later on White had moved to Portland Oregon, and this is where he had began his photography career. In his times White had been traveling a lot in his life.  Minor White had served in the military during World War ll, then moved to New York in 1945. At the time he had spent at New York, he had developed his career in photography. He had been involved in influencing people. He had influenced Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams in the influential circle. He was the first to join the Oregon Camera Club, and then he took the assignment to go to the Portland Art Museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_White


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