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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.1994.1
People
Minor White, American (Minneapolis, Minnesota 1908 - 1976 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Title
Untitled (Sunset District, San Francisco)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: How to Read Photographs, I, c. 1954
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1949
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/286714

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
actual: 9 x 11.8 cm (3 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Minor White, given to Carl Chiarenza, 1980.
Carl Chiarenza, acquired as gift from the artist, sold to current owner, 1980.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Copyright
© The Trustees of Princeton University
Object Number
3.1994.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Minor White, "An experiment in 'reading' photographs", Aperture (San Francisco, CA, 1957), vol. 5, no. 2
  • "What is meant by 'reading' photographs?", Aperture (1957), vol.5, no. 2

Exhibition History

  • How to Read a Photograph, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 01/01/1953 - 12/31/1953

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