Minor White
American, 1908–1976
Broken Paint Figure
INV-1217
Minor White
American, 1908–1976August 1959, printed 1959/60
Broken Paint Figure
Minor White American, 1908–1976 →gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographic process
Date
August 1959, printed 1959/60
Medium
Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "Sequence 15" (1959)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 12.1 × 24.2 cm (4 13/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Mount: 40.7 × 51 cm (16 1/16 × 20 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Photography Gallery Fund
Minor White was a significant figure in 20th-century photography not only as an artist, but also as an editor (he co-founded Aperture magazine), curator (at George Eastman House), and teacher (at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He was greatly influenced by Alfred Stieglitz’s concept of “Equivalents”—in which a photograph not only depicts a subject but also serves as a metaphor for emotions and the photographer’s inner state—as well as Zen philosophy. Interested in “things for what else they are,” White found compelling pictures in the abstract or banal.
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