Windowsill Daydreaming
Reproduced with permission of The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © 1958 Trustees of Princeton University.
- Windowsill Daydreaming
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 15/16 in. (19.7 × 15.1 cm)
Mount: 15 × 12 7/8 in. (38.1 × 32.8 cm)
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Minor White was an influential photographer, teacher at Rochester Institute of Technology and MIT, curator at George Eastman House, publisher of the magazine Aperture, and photography essayist. Taking inspiration from from Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalents—photographs of the sky in which Stieglitz saw metaphorical equivalents of emotional states—White sought to imbue his photographs of the natural world or domestic environment with spiritual and emotional content. “At first glance a photograph can inform us,” he wrote. “At second glance it can reach us.”
ProvenanceEx-collection of photographer Robert Bourdeau.
Bought by Manfred Heiting from Joseph Bellows Gallery on 2/10/1983.
Exhibition History"Minor White: Poetic Form," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 July – 29 September 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, upper left: "Bob / A moment not / in memory / Minor"
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