Author: WHITE, MINOR (JAMES BAKER HALL, ESSAY)
Title: Minor White Rites and Passages. His Photographs Accompanied By Excerpts from His Diaries and Letters
Description: New York: An Aperture Monograph, 1978. First Edition. Third Printing; Softcover. ISBN: 0893814903. Illustrated by Minor White. B&W Photographs; 9 1/2 x 11; 143 pages; Softcover has shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, bumping, some creasing, clear plastic over heavy paper covers, lifting in bottom corners. Several pages have corner crease. Softcover is green with white lettering on front and spine. Pages are overall clean and tight. Printed and bound in Italy. Lavishly illustrated with 98 of his b/w photographs, many of them full page sized. "Minor White [1908-1976]....educated at the University of Minnesota. His first serious photography was done in Portland, Oregon, for the Works Progress Administration [WPA] in 1938, and his first one-man exhibition was at the Portland Art Museum in 1942....In 1952 he founded APERTURE, a quarterly of photography....internationally recognized artist, his photographs are represented in major museums and private collections..." List of photographs, Chronology. Tributes are paid on the back cover by Ansel Adams, Meyer Schapiro, Edward Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz. Oversized, 4#.. Very Good .

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