#10, from Sequence 15A
Minor White, #10, from Sequence 15A, 1960, gelatin silver print, Gift of Judy Hatton, © Trustees of Princeton University. Reproduced with permission of the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum, 94.57.9
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- Title
#10, from Sequence 15A
- Related Titles
series (original language): Sequence 15A
- Artist
- Date
1960
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 7 5/16 in x 9 5/16 in; sheet: 7 5/16 in x 9 5/16 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Judy Hatton
- Accession Number
94.57.9
- Copyright
© Trustees of Princeton University. Reproduced with permission of the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum
- Terms
Rather than creating portfolios, White preferred to work in what he called sequences—painstakingly assembled and periodically reworked groupings that he likened to a "cinema of stills." He explained that a sequence "must be long enough, either in number of photographs or time of study, to sustain the viewer until he has directly experienced the inner 'meaning' or 'message' or 'manifestation' or Being. The viewer who is willing to bring his heart, mind, viscera, and intuition to play upon a Sequence will reach an understanding." White used photographs to express his own emotions and spiritual beliefs as well as to evoke emotions in others.
William LaRue, the only figure in this sequence, participated in White's first Oregon photography workshop in 1959. He became White's travel companion and assistant, and also appears in Sequence 17. White, who established his photography career in Portland in the late 1930s and later taught in New York and Massachusetts, continued his Oregon workshops through 1965.
- Exhibitions
2015 FOTOFOLIO: Adams, Strand, Weston, Weston, White Portland Art Museum