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MINOR WHITE ©  
(Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1908 - Boston, Massachussetts, 1976)

Twisted tree, 1951

Vintage gelatin silver print mounted on archival cardboard by the artist
Cm 23 x 15,5
Signed on recto of the mount
Framed (cherry concave wood + plexi) size cm 60 x 49 x 4
With a gallery certified invoice
Original provenance: Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla USA

Michael Hoffman is right on track when he says that if you want to understand Minor White and his work you have to know, what it means to be an essentially religious man.
It doesn’t mean for example that he followed a precise set of beliefs even if he did that as well during the las dozen years of his life, or so. The thing is that he always lived his life and the world in terms of a basic, often conscious distinction between sacred and profane.
For a man like thac, tlte darli world of body, work, rocks and friends, the world of rainbows, homes, love, photographs and food. Essentially, the profane world of change only becomes unquestionably real if the eternal sacred One becomes manifest.
No religion offers the experience of God, which is by definition ineffable and deeply subjective. It can only show one of the possible ways. Profane man can seek what to believe in religion, religious man asks how to believe. His is simply seeking a language, nothing more or less, a language that reflects his experience of the sacred and the profane, a method by which to organise his thoughts and life so that he can keep in contact with what is real.

James Baker Hall

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