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Minor White

Hornitos, California

Lot Closed

October 5, 03:13 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Minor White

1908 - 1976

Hornitos, California



gelatin silver print, mounted, with credit and annotation 'print exchange c. 1947-50' in pencil on the reverse, 1948, printed circa 1950

image: 3 ½ by 4 ½ in. (8.9 by 11.4 cm.)

The photographer to Philip Hyde 

Acquired from the above

Mirrors Messages Manifestations (Aperture, 1969), p. 142

Minor White: Rites and Passages (Aperture, 1978), p. 116

This photograph comes originally from the collection of photographer Philip Hyde (1921-2006), who studied in the 1940s under Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Minor White at the California School of Replica Handbags s (now the San Francisco Art Institute).  Hyde photographed extensively for The Sierra Club, contributing for more than 40 years to its conservation efforts.