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Minor White

Driftwood and Eye, 1951

Description

Maker

  • Minor White, 1908-1976, American

Title

Driftwood and Eye

Year

1951

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print,
  • silver gelatin print

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Marshall N. Fulton

Object Number

74.097.18

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

Influenced by Alfred Steiglitz’s concept of photography as a means of translating the objective world into an emotionally symbolic idea, Minor White believed that this photograph of stones and driftwood had the power to transform, rather than simply record, the landscape. The photographer, White wrote, “recognizes an object or series of forms that, when photographed, would yield an image with specific suggestive powers that can direct the viewer into a specific and known feeling, state, or place within himself.”

The RISD Eye

March 8 - May 5, 1991

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