Great Black and White Photographers Part 2

Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1908. He went to go study in the University of Minnesota. He worked as a photographer with the Works Progress Administration in Oregon in 1938-1939. In 1945 he moved to New York City and study at the University of Columbia. In 1946 he worked with another great photographer of the name of Ansel Adams at California School of Fine Arts as a assistent. 1953-1965 he worked at the Eastman House and tought at the Rochester Insitute of Photography. In 1965 he became a professor of photography at the MIT (Massachuttes Insitute of Technology). He served until he died in 1976 making him 68 years old. He was a great photography and he did photography known as Textural photography. Which is when he takes pictures of items such as a bush, tree, cracks in the road, or even a rusted up car. He was an American photographer, poet, educator, and a critic.