Minor White: Inspiration and Influences

Minor White became interested with photography at a very young age. He also took up other things like the study of botany, and poetry. He later came back to photography working for the Works Progress Administration in Portland, Oregon. White also served in the United States Army during WWII. After he was finished serving he moved to NYC in 1945 where he befriended inspiring photographers such as Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. This circle of friends helped him find his own unique style of photography. Steichen helped him learn the expressive potential of the sequence. White also comprehended the idea of the "equivalent,"or a photograph intended to serve at as a visual metaphor. White also showed his work in another way, writing. He thought he could express more moods, and emotions through his writing along with his photography.  White had become a master of the exponent of the sequence and the equivalent.

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