PHOTOGRAPHS
White, Minor
U.S. (1908 - 1976)
Moon and Wall Encrustations, Pultneyville, N.Y.
1964, printed 1974
Gelatin silver print
9 1/16 x 11 7/8 in. (23 x 30.2 cm) image size; 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) sheet size
Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and The Boeing Company
FA 97.294

Minor White actively pursued the use of photography to reveal personal emotions, as symbolized by real objects. Following this notion, one should look at the half-shadowed moon and the crooked, blurred wall encrustations in this work and consider which feelings White could mean to represent.

In addition to being a photographer and an influential professor of photography at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, White was also an active writer. One of his largest projects in this arena was Aperture magazine, which he founded in 1952 with several other individuals, including photographers Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. He served as an editor for the photography magazine until 1975. -- Label copy for 150 Works of Art, October 1, 2005 to February 26, 2006.