Minor White

Minor White was an American photographer active in the 1900's. Before he began photography, he earned a degree in botany and a minor in english from the University of Minnesota in 1933. He joined the Oregon Camera Club, and then began exhibiting his work at the Portland Art Museum. Minor White co-founded the magazine Aperture in 1952 with other photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Ansel Adams. White was secretly a bisexual, and some of his photographs of nude male bodies are considered some of the best works of the genre, but were not published right away. Here are some examples of his work;

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