History of Art: History of Photography


	History of Photography Introduction History of Photography (Encyclopaedia Britannica) A World History of Photography (by Naomi Rosenblum) The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991 (by Hans-Michael Koetzle) Photographers' Dictionary (based on "20th Century Photography - Museum Ludwig Cologne")


	Photographers' Dictionary (based on "20th Century Photography-Museum Ludwig Cologne")

Minor White

(b Minneapolis, MN, 9 July 1908; d Boston, MA, 24 June 1976).

American photographer and writer. He took his first photographs as a child with a Kodak Box Brownie camera and later learnt darkroom procedures as a student at the University of Minnesota. After graduating in 1933 with a degree in botany and English, he wrote poetry for five years while supporting himself with odd jobs. He moved to Portland, OR, in 1938 and became increasingly interested in photography. During 1938–9 he worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project as a creative photographer documenting the early architecture and waterfront of Portland. In 1941 MOMA in New York exhibited several of his images. His first one-man show, photographs of the Grande Ronde-Wallowa Mountain area of north-eastern Oregon, opened at the Portland Art Museum in 1942.