I don't hear about Minor White much. That's a shame. Get on over to wood s lot for a Minor White festival. (Scroll down to 11.24.2003.) Here is one of the links...

Minor White

Minor White, American, b. 1908 - d. 1976

Minor White had an extremely influential impact on the medium of photography, in both the constructing of its history and the formulating of a picture making methodology. He was an Editor of Aperture Magazine from 1952 to 1975. An important teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and numerous workshops throughout the country. As an Artist, White produced important sequences and bodies of photographs that investigate the mediums potential for metaphor and the creation and combination of syntax. Monographs on Minor White included; Rites and Passages, Mirrors Messages Manifestations, and The Eye That Shapes. The photographs of Minor White are among all the major collections of photography, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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One of my treasures is a Minor White print, Ritual Rocks. I bought it in 1974 for $100. That was a good price then. I bought it opening night of the Minor White Show at the Silver Image in Tacoma, the only photography gallery in the Puget Sound area at that time. It later moved to Seattle and went out of business in the early 90s.

Boy, is the Internet an amazing place! I wrote the above photograph and then Googled for "silver image gallery" and lo and behold. Dan Fear has a page up with all the shows he had from when he opened August 10, 1973 until he closed May 8, 1993. Amazing. Opening night of the Minor White show was May 13, 1975. I remember a lot of those shows in the 70s. I have prints from five of them. I will link to Dan's website next time. It's good.

Now, go on over to wood s lot for more Minor White.