Ritual Branch, Frost on Window
Artist
Minor White
(American, 1908 - 1976)
Date1958
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 7 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (19.37 x 19.37 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.405
InscribedSigned and dated
Signed in artist's hand
"Minor"
On Mount
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.
Rotation 1. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 17 – October 25, 2007, no cat.
As a photographer, teacher and editor, White exerted great influence on American photography in the 1950s and 1960s. He believed that the most subjective moods and emotions could be expressed in visual metaphor. The meaning of White's pictures was never simply a result of his subject matter. Many of his images take on the form of a visual haiku: at once simple and profound, intimate and sublime.
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