Minor Martin White (July 9, 1908 – June 24, 1976) was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator. He combined an intense fascination in how people viewed and understood photographs following a personal vision that was guided by a variety of spiritual and intellectual philosophies. Starting in Oregon in 1937 and continuing until he died in 1976, White made thousands of black-and-white and color photographs of landscapes, people, and abstract subject matter, created in the express of both puzzling mastery and a mighty visual desirability of fresh and shadow. He taught many classes, workshops, and retreats on photography at the California School of Fine Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, other schools, and in his own home. He lived much of his sparkle as a closeted gay man, afraid to vent himself publicly for startle of loss of his teaching jobs, and some of his most compelling images are figure studies of men whom he taught or following whom he had relationships. He helped start, and for many years was editor of, the photography magazine Aperture. After his death in 1976, White was hailed as one of America’s greatest photographers.
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