Aquatic Park, San Francisco

Minor White1949

Details

Title: Aquatic Park, San Francisco
Creator: Minor White
Creator Lifespan: 1908 - 1976
Creator Nationality: American
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Creator Birth Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created: 1949
Physical Dimensions: w190.5 x h185.67 in (image)
Type: photograph
Rights: Reproduced with the permission of the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © Trustees of Princeton University
External Link: SFMOMA
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Subject: San Francisco, United States
Place Part Of: United States
More Info: More About This Artist - SFMOMA
Credit Line: Gift of Leland Rice
About the Artist: Minor White taught at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) for only seven years, from 1946 to 1953, but his impact on photography in the Bay Area was profound and sustained. A native of Minnesota who spent the bulk of his career in Rochester, New York, White was perhaps his generation's most influential teacher, mentor, and writer about the medium. Art was a quasi-religious dedication for White, who saw photography as a means of tapping into deep, spiritual realms of the human psyche. He exhorted his students, as well as readers of the magazine Aperture, which he cofounded in 1952 and edited for 23 years, to use photography to express and explore their inner selves.

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