1323-29 Southwest First Avenue
Minor White, 1323-29 Southwest First Avenue, 1939, gelatin silver print, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project, public domain, L42.3.37
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- Title
1323-29 Southwest First Avenue
- Artist
- Date
1939
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 10 1/2 in x 12 5/8 in; sheet: 10 1/2 in x 12 5/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Minor White, graphite, lower right
- Collection Area
Photography; Northwest Art
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project
- Accession Number
L42.3.37
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Place Made
Created in and depicts: Portland
Created in and depicts: Oregon
Minor White began his photographic career in Portland, becoming a member of the Oregon Camera Club and teaching photography at the YMCA. In 1939 the Federal Art Project (FAP), a division of the government’s Works Progress Administration, hired White to document the Front Avenue district, a once-active business zone being readied for demolition and highway construction. By 1940 White was traveling to art centers in Salem, Gold Beach, and La Grande to teach photography courses for the FAP. The federal government placed more than one hundred of the photographs that White created during this time period on permanent loan with the Museum, establishing the foundation of the institution’s photography collection.
- Exhibitions
2012 70 Years/70 Photographs Portland Art Museum
2018 In the Beginning: Minor White's Oregon Photographs, Phase 2 Portland Art Museum
