Image DAY 223 FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Minor Martin White (1908–1976)

THINKING IN THE ABSTRACT

Minor White used photography to create metaphor, with individual objects serving as elements in a greater whole by providing line and form to the composition. His goal was to use the medium of photography to inspire certain feelings within the viewer. A master of the abstract, White’s photographs explore patterns in the natural elements of wood, moss, stone, leaves, and rope, or frost on a windowpane, each used as a tool to suggest a story or idea, often with a spiritual flavor. His work was often rendered with infrared film, which gave it an otherworldly, ...

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