Minor White

    Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the year of 1908. Known as an American photographer, educator, poet, and critic, his work was acknowledged for his commitment in photography and vision. Most of White's photography focused on texture (i.e. bushes, trees, cracks, roads, etc). White devoted most of his life to the arts and teachings of photography, until his death in 1976.
   White's career in photography first took off in the year of 1938 when he started working for the Works Progress Administration. White using differently lightings in his pictures to change the feel that his photos give off to others. Through his efforts in his range of expressions with in his works, White became a very influential and highly known photographer oh his century. Minor White also dealt with reflections in his photography as well. Capturing images through their reflections on a window, or any type of glass. Other than just being a photographer, White also taught at MIT about photography for the last 10 years of his life. And within MIT, White taught a class about Zone System, which was about the way to develop a film and pictures so that they would turn out the way the photographers wanted. By using film exposures and such to change the lighting and colors of photos.

"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." ~Minor White

This class that White taught became very popular that they soon restricted it to only seniors who could take this course. White was also the co-founder of a magazine called the Aperture during 1952. White edited the magazine from 1952 until 1976, when he died. The Aperture was a magazine devoted to Fine Art Photographies. Down below shows some of Whites many works in photography:

 

 

"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." -Minor White 

American Photography

 

Photography has changed a great deal throughout the history of America. Not only are pictures just pictures to people, they"re very important, in the sense that they capture a piece of their loved ones and display memories that were captured by the camera. Pictures and photos soon took on a different role as they started influencing  everyone's lives. Pictures affected the ways people started to view things, such as clothes and pictures of the world. And as someone said, "What you see in an ordinary picture has extroadinary powers"

The first box camera came out on February 1st, 1977. And after the box camera came the brownie cameras. For some, taking pictures was too expensive, and so when the box camera came out and it only cost $1, everyone wanted one. And once the cameras were out in stores, people started taking pictures all the time. A quarter of a million Brownies were sold during that time period. After the Brownies, photos started changing as well as cameras. 

Photos soon turned into postcards. And soon enough, people figured out how to print photos right onto paper, such as the newspaper and magazines. Photos soon became used worldwide in newspapers, showing people the stories of America. And soon after this, colored photos were made. People could now have color on their photos, rather than just having it be white and black. And like someone said, "The wonders of the world were on your doorsteps."