“When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of myself.”
~ Minor White
(1908-1976)
Minor White was far more than an important 20th-century photographer—he was a visionary teacher, writer, editor, and the founding force behind Aperture magazine. A philosopher and mystic at heart, White helped shape a new generation of photographers, just as he himself had been shaped by Alfred Stieglitz’s powerful idea of photographs as visual metaphors—equivalents of emotion and inner experience. His influence continues to ripple through the world of photography, inviting us to see images not just as representations, but as reflections of feeling.
