Minor White
Minor White
Minor Martin Whitewas an American photographer, theoretician, critic and educator. He combined an intense interest in how people viewed and understood photographs with a personal vision that was guided by a variety of spiritual and intellectual philosophies. Starting in Oregon in 1937 and continuing until he died in 1976, White made thousands of black-and-white and color photographs of landscapes, people and abstract subject matter, created with both technical mastery and a strong visual sense of light and shadow. He taught...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth9 July 1908
CountryUnited States of America
A very receptive state of mind...not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
Photography is a language more universal than words.
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.