Minor White: Rites & Passages
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0893810223 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 143 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
I do not make this statement lightly The sheer beauty of the medium of photography is tuned to the exact meaning of the visualized image." --Ansel Adams This selection of Minor White's superb photographs is accompanied by extensive, revealing excerpts from White's letters and amplified by James Baker Hall's perceptive observations of the artist-teacher at work.. "Minor White is one of the greatest of photographers
"Minor White is one of the greatest of photographers. The sheer beauty of the medium of photography is tuned to the exact meaning and feeling of the visualized image. Indeed, White's omnipresence in the photographic world has made it easy to forget at times that he has remained first of all an artist: a photographer who has made some of the medium's most memorable pictures."--John Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art. His photographs are a fresh revelation and a new enticement to touch and embrace worlds beyond human experience."--Ansel Adams"The quality of his prints is inseparable from the beauty and mystery
"Understanding Minor White" according to KoonYik. I now understand Minor.I have read a number of Internet articles but the book explained who he is better. Lynn Hoffman, author:Radiation Days: A Comedy said A moment in photographic history. Minor White excelled at noticing and reproducing those graphic istances where the world offers the eye a piece of simple beauty that's outside the preserve of our cliches. The cover is a photo of English Ivy curving down a weathered board fence. There's a powerful print of snow dusting the windows of a wooden barn and the necessary shots of weathered trees.White's vision was germinal. He inspired millions to take up their cameras and look at the details: to expand the notion of what beautiful meant. Of course, this is more than a point-and-shoot exercise. The Zone system of expo. A Passage Worth Undertaking Stuart Murdoch For some reason monographs of and about Minor White seem far and few between.This is a welcome book as a consequence. I would however have liked to have seen the photographs and text organised in a different way, keep the information about home separate from the images themselves.I've not seen much of Minor White's work in the flesh so I can't comment on the quality of the reproductions, but the book itself is a delight to hold and look at.