MINOR WHITE

In the summer of 1970, in Aperture, Minor White published “an experiment in fiction” called “The Tale of Peter Rasun Gould,” a series of brief vignettes recounting the narrator’s encounters with the seer-like titular character. Part reminiscence, part paean, the story outlines Gould’s idiosyncratic vision.

It was quintessential White—a once-aspiring poet who turned to photography in the years before World War II. He spent his career experimenting not just with photographs, but with how photographs change in relation to each other, to a viewer, and to a moment in one’s life. His “sequences” used versions of thematic pictures in shifting combinations, subtly altering their meanings. In the 1970