Minor White
By Charlotte Stace
Fundación MAPFRE’s KBr Photography Center turns its attention to Minor White, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century American photography. Artist, teacher, editor and curator, White helped shape the language of modern photography while pushing the image beyond documentation and towards something more introspective, symbolic and spiritual.
The exhibition marks the fiftieth anniversary of his death and is the first major European show dedicated to his work. It brings together his key themes - nature, portraiture and street photography - with particular focus on his photographic sequences, which White described as a kind of “cinema of still images” and used to build meaning through rhythm, association and emotional atmosphere.
Alongside the photographs, the show includes documents, contact sheets, books and magazines, offering a fuller picture of White’s wide-ranging influence.