Minor White
Vicinity of Naples, New York

Vicinity of Naples, New York

Reproduced with permission of The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © 1955 Trustees of Princeton University.

Vicinity of Naples, New York
Vicinity of Naples, New York
ArtistAmerican, 1908–1976
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Vicinity of Naples, New York
Date1955
Place depictedNaples (vicinity of), New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 × 11 3/8 in. (23.8 × 28.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.313
Non exposé

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Description

Minor
White took some of the ideas raised by Stieglitz’s Equivalents and ran with them, especially the theory that the
natural world is a springboard for metaphoric associations. In 1953 White moved
to Rochester, New York, to become the assistant curator of photography at the
George Eastman House, as well as the editor of its journal, Image. In contrast to the great drama of sites such as Point Lobos that
he shot in California in the late 1940s and early 1950s, White found the
eastern landscape to be “spiritually flat.” Using infrared film in this
photograph, he heightened the contrast and accentuated the scene’s duality
between light and dark, creating a sharply defined image that verges on the
surreal, dreamlike, and otherworldly.




Provenance[The Cronin Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February 27 - May 1, 1988

"Minor White: Poetic Form," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 July – 29 September 2013.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
No inscription on verso
signed below image lower right "Minor White"

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