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The Invention of Minor White

he Wanderer, American-style. Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1908, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1934 with a degree in botany and a passion for poetry, two elements at the foundation of his work. White stayed in town, sentenced by the Depression to punitive work hours. In 1937, he began using a 35mm Argus C, James Baker Hall tells us in his biographical essay , in , Winter 1978, and properly equipped, meaning free at last, he got on a bus bound for Seattle. However, he got off in Portland, Oregon, and eventually found a job with the Works Progress Administration, making a series of early Portland architecture and another of the Portland waterfront, Hall says. There are photographs in , taken from later periods, that remind us how much we love doors. Hall also tells us that White lived from and for photography for

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