COLLECTION NAME:
University Art Galleries (UMassD)
Record
exhibition_title:
Photographic Show
exhibition_dates:
November 1978
exhibition_year:
1978
exhibition_location:
SMU Art Gallery
exhibition_curator:
Apeiron Workshops Millerton, New York
exhibition_note:
The first Apeiron Portfolio representing noteable contemporary American photographers from the late 20th century.
exhibition_genre:
photography
resourceID:
14002_003_012
resource_type:
slides
copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
credit line:
Claire T. Carney Library - Archives and Special Collections
artist name:
White , Minor
artist_nationality:
American
artist_vital dates:
1908-1976
artist_biographical note:
Minor White was born on July 9, 1908. He took his first photographs on a trip to Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota in 1937. From 1937 to 1938 White worked as an assistant in a photographic studio in Portland, Oregon. In 1938 White photographed historic nineteenth-century façades that were to be demolished in Portland, Oregon. He photographed the Portland commercial waterfront for the Oregon Art Project in 1939. White photographed the landscape of eastern Oregon in 1940. In 1942 White was commissioned by the Portland Art Museum to photograph two historic residences, the Dolph and Lindley houses. White moved to New York City, New York in 1945 and worked as a photographer at the Museum of Modern Art until 1946. That year he moved to San Francisco, California and photographed the work of architect Bernard Maybeck. In 1952 White was a co-founder and editor/director of Aperture magazine in San Fransico, California. In 1953, White moved to Rochester, New York to work for George Eastman House. He worked for GEH until 1956 and lived in Rochester until 1965. White was a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education in 1962. From 1965 to 1974 White taught photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. In 1968 he photographed in Maine and Vermont, United States and Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1973-1974 White photographed in Lima, Peru and Europe. He died June 24, 1976.
artist_URL:
500000194
artist_reference:
AAT
work_title:
Driftwood and Eye
work_medium:
Silver gelatin print
work_technique:
photography
work_date:
1951
name_cataloger:
ajc
Driftwood and Eye
