Reproduced with permission of The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © 1950 Trustees of Princeton University.
- Point Lobos State Park, California
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)
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In his book Mirrors Messages Manifestations, Minor White described the two afternoons he spent at Lobos State Park, California, photo- graphing “forms I had liked for about three years but would not photograph because of their obvious sexual implications. Being the victim of an emotional storm those afternoons, sex symbols were just what I needed. I had no need to study these familiar forms to photo- graph them; that had been done, so I worked very fast.” White’s photographs often present abstracted elements of the natural world as symbolic evocations of emotional states.
Provenance[Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, August 19, 1993; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Minor White: Poetic Form," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 July – 29 September 2013.
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