Minor White

Beginnings
1962

A black and white photograph depicting an abstract, blurred image with light reflections, possibly on a wet surface, creating a dreamlike or ethereal effect. The photo is mounted on a white border with a signature at the bottom left corner.

A black and white photograph depicting an abstract, blurred image with light reflections, possibly on a wet surface, creating a dreamlike or ethereal effect. The photo is mounted on a white border with a signature at the bottom left corner.

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Date
1962

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Image: 12 7/16 × 9 1/2in. (31.6 × 24.1 cm) Mount (board): 19 1/8 × 15in. (48.6 × 38.1 cm)

Accession number
98.66

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
Reporducition Curtesy of the Minor White Archive, Princeton University. ©1989 by The Trustees of Princeton University. All rights reserved

API
artworks/11883

Exhibitions

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

June 26–Sept 22, 2002

Minor White
5 works in the collection

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