Minor White

Minor White was born on July 9, 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and earned his degree at the University of Minnesota in 1933. From there, White was originally a writer who then moved to Portland, Oregon in 1938 and joined the Oregon Camera Club. He spent two more years learning about photography at Columbia University. From 1946-1953 White served as the head of the photography department at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He co-founded the magazine, Aperture in 1952 with Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Barbara Morgan; and edited the magazine until 1975. White was known for his ideas of spiritual photography and still famous even years after his death in 1976.