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Infinite Connections [Phillips Academy Art 300]

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Artist(s): Minor White (Minneapolis, MN, Jul 9, 1908 - Jun 24, 1976, Boston, MA)
Title: Moon and Wall Encrustations
Date: Pultneyville, NY, 1964
Dimensions: 9 in. x 11 3/4 in. (22.86 cm x 29.85 cm)
Medium: gelatin silver print
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1973.68

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Exhibitions: Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photographs

Object Information

Influenced by Alfred Stieglitz, who believed photographs could be metaphors for feelings or emotional truths, Minor White, in turn, influenced countless photographers. Known for his dramatic teaching style, which was heavily imbued with mysticism, he gained something of a cult-following as a teacher at Rochester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the San Francisco Art Institute. White proposed that photographs could serve as a mirror of the self, conveying personal and spiritual experience. Rather than being purely representational, his images of nature are abstracted and enigmatic.

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

American Abstraction at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1991 - 7/31/1991
American Abstraction from the Addison Gallery of American Art, American Federation of Arts, 2/27/1993 - 12/4/1994
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/28/2006 - 7/31/2006
Infinite Connections [Phillips Academy Art 300], Addison Gallery of American Art, 6/4/2013 - 7/31/2013
The Deception of Perception: Exploring Distortion and Ambiguity in Photography [Phillips Academy Art 300], Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/15/2016 - 3/5/2017
Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photographs, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/8/2018 - 3/3/2019

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