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
The Invention of Minor White
Sep 06, 2022
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