Minor White (08'-1976)

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46 posts
13 years
California,
USA

Posted 02/08/2014 - 06:38 Link

Minor White was an American Photographer of Genius. His Retrospective is currently at the Getty museum in Los Angeles. He personifies the "not what you look at but what you see" method of image recording. His work does include some images (none obtrusively naked) of men, and as he was a gay man(both when it was and wasn't cool) brought his genius to a section of his portfolio. He was drawn particularly to city and landscapes as well as interesting and perplexing close work. It would be interesting to see your reviews and consideration of his images as they provided a sea change outlet for my B&W work. --- (google- Getty Museum Minor White ) ---- Tony

"It's not what you look at that's important, it's what you see" - Thoreau

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Pentaxophile Pentaxophile

6794 posts
17 years
Nottingham

Posted 02/08/2014 - 11:28 Link

Wow. Not just a great photographer, but a visionary IMHO! His landscape images are as close as I've seen photos come to abstract impressionism. Thanks so much for the introduction.

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Minor-White.html

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RussV RussV

322 posts
16 years

Posted 03/08/2014 - 20:45 Link

Pentaxophile wrote:
Wow. Not just a great photographer, but a visionary IMHO! His landscape images are as close as I've seen photos come to abstract impressionism. Thanks so much for the introduction.

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Minor-White.html

Agreed, his ability to find abstracts in nature was extrordinary. I'd never heard of him before.

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