Minor White - (great black and white photographers part 2)

Minor White

     Minor Martin White was born on july 9th, 1908 in Minneapolis MN and died on June 24, 1976 in Boston MA. He was an American photographer, theoretician, critic and educator. 

     He went to Columbia University (1945-1946), and the University of Minnisota(1933). 

     He wrote "The new zone system", "Eye, Mind, And Spirit", and many more. He won the "Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada". 

     His first job was at YMCA where he taught his first class of photography, then he was offered a job at the Organ Art Project. The in 1940 he was hired to teach again at La Grande in Organ.White resigned from the Art Center in late 1941 and returned to Portland where he intended to start a commercial photography business. In April 1942. White was drafted into the United States Army and hid his homosexuality from the recruiters. After the war White traveled to New York City and enrolled in Columbia University. White was offered a job as photographer for the museum and spent many hours talking with and learning from Nancy Newhall, whom he said strongly influenced his thinking about and his direction in photography.