id:			147868
accession number:	1974.225
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.225
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:36.079000

Beginnings, Frosted Window (Rochester, New York), 1962. Minor White (American, 1908–1976). Gelatin silver print; image: 29.9 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.); paper: 35.6 x 27.6 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Scandesign, Inc., Cleveland 1974.225 © 1989 Trustees of Princeton University

title:				Beginnings, Frosted Window (Rochester, New York)
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creation date:			1962
creation date earliest:		1962
creation date latest:		1962
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creditline:			Gift of Scandesign, Inc., Cleveland
copyright:			© 1989 Trustees of Princeton University

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Minor White (American, 1908–1976)  - artist
Minor White American, 1908-1976 Minor Martin White (born in Minneapolis) was a photographer, poet, and teacher who worked in photographic sequences to achieve greater expressive power. Several years after graduating from the University of Minnesota with a major in botany and a minor in English, White moved to Portland where he joined the Oregon Camera Club. Interested in photography since his youth, he worked as an assistant in a photography studio at night and in 1938 served as a creative photographer for the Works Progress Administration. Following service in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps (1942-45), White moved to New York where he studied art history with Meyer Shapiro at Columbia University (19450-46). In 1946 he met Alfred Stieglitz, whose ideas about photographic equivalents had a deep impact on his work. Like Stieglitz, White sought to express inner feelings and beliefs through his work. Around this time he began producing sequences of images that were arranged for their allusive or metaphorical meaning rather than for narrative content, a practice he continued throughout his career. In 1952 White helped found Aperture magazine, serving as its editor until l975. He took a position as curator of exhibitions at George Eastman House in Rochester in the early 1950s, working there until 1957. While at Eastman House he also served as editor for the museum's publication, Image. In 1955 White began teaching at the Rochester Institute of Technology, leaving in 1965 to join the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the years he became a well-respected and influential teacher, and continued to teach at mit until 1974. During the 1950s White became interested in mysticism, Eastern philosophy, and Gestalt psychology, all of which had an impact on his work and teaching. In 1962 he was a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education and in 1970 was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 29.9 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.); Paper: 35.6 x 27.6 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "Minor White [signed]"; in pencil on verso: "Beginnings, Frosted Window, Rochester, N.Y. 1962 / Minor White [signed]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1974
	opening date:   1975-03-11T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 83; Mentioned: p. 102, no. 42
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 259
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n279

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