Minor White Bibliography

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White, Minor. 1968. Zone System Manual: Previsualization, Exposure, Development, Printing : The Ansel Adams Zone System as a Basis of Intuitive Photography. [New rev. ed.]. Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan. [WorldCat]

White, Minor, Beaumont Newhall, Meyer Schapiro, Peter C. Bunnell, Jonathan Williams, Barbara Brooks Morgan, and Ansel Adams. 1969. Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations. New York: Aperture, Inc. [WorldCat]

Bunnell, Peter C., ed. 2012. The Aperture Magazine Anthology : The Minor White Years, 1952-1976. First edition. New York, N.Y.: Aperture Foundation. [WorldCat]

White, Minor, and Andrew Kensett. 2024. Minor White : Memorable Fancies. Edited by Todd Cronan and Peter C. Bunnell. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum. [WorldCat] [book review: Trevor Fairbrother in Art Fuse 2025]

Exhibitions Curated By

White, Minor, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1970. Be-Ing without Clothes. New York: Aperture. [WorldCat]

White, Minor, Jonathan Green, Leonard Freed, Hayden Gallery, and MIT Committee on the Visual Arts. 1974. Celebrations : An Exhibition of Original Photographs, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1 through March 30, 1974. New York: Aperture, Inc. [WorldCat]

Posthumous Exhibition Catalogues 

White, Minor, and James Baker Hall. 1978. Minor White : Rites & Passages : His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from His Diaries and Letters. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, Inc. [WorldCat]

Bunnell, Peter C., Minor White, Maria B. Pellerano, Joseph B. Rauch, Princeton University Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Portland Art Museum (Or), et al. 1989. Minor White : The Eye That Shapes. Edited by Jill Guthrie. Princeton, New Jersey, Boston: Art Museum, Princeton University ; Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. [WorldCat]

White, Minor, Peter C. Bunnell, and Joan Lyons. 2008. Eye, Mind, Spirit : The Enduring Legacy of Minor White. Edited by Nathan Lyons. New York: Howard Greenberg Gallery. [WorldCat] [Howard Greenberg Gallery]

Martineau, Paul, Minor White, and J. Paul Getty Museum. 2014. Minor White : Manifestations of the Spirit. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. [WorldCat]

White, Minor, Deborah Klochko, Andrew E. Hershberger, and Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, Calif). 2015. The Time between : The Sequences of Minor White. First edition. San Francisco, CA: Modernbook Editions. [WorldCat]

Books About

Gassan, Arnold. 1983. Report : Minor White Workshops and a Dialogue Failed. Sun Prairie, WI (P.O. Box 176, Sun Prairie 53590): Baumgartner Publications. [WorldCat] also a double issue of Camera Lucidia #6 & #7 (1983)

Frajndlich, Abe, and Peter C. Bunnell. 1983. Lives I’ve Never Lived : A Portrait of Minor White. Cleveland, Ohio: Arc Press. [WorldCat] [book review: John Upton in Aperture, Summer 1984]

Minor White : A Living Rememberance. 1984. New York: Aperture. [WorldCat] and Aperture Foundation. 1984. Aperture Number Ninety-Five : Minor White, a Living Rememberance. New York, N.Y.: Aperture Foundation, Inc. [WorldCat]

Loori, John Daido. 2004. The Zen of Creativity : Cultivating Your Artistic Life. New York: Ballantine Books. [WorldCat]

Comer, Stephanie, Deborah Klochko, and Jeff Gunderson. 2006. The Moment of Seeing : Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. [WorldCat]

Essays About

NYTimes: Photography View - The Fall From Grace Of A Spiritual Guru By Andy Grundberg (Sept. 2, 1984)  

Kevin Moore: Cruising and Transcendence in the Photographs of Minor White (Aperture Magazine, February 5, 2015)

Stephen Dansky: Contemplating the Navel (The Gay and Lesbian Review, September-October 2015)

Ten Books for Creative Photographers - from Aperture Vol 4, No 2 (1956)

Adams, Ansel. 1948. The Negative. Boston, Mass.: New York Graphic Society.[WorldCat]

Pepper, Stephen C. 1949. Principles of Art Appreciation. New York: Harcourt, Brace.[WorldCat]

Kepes, Gyorgy. 1944. Language of Vision,. [Chicago]: P. Theobald. [WorldCat]

Boleslavsky, Richard. 1933. Acting : The First Six Lessons. New York: Theatre arts Inc. [WorldCat]

Ghiselin, Brewster. 1952. The Creative Process, a Symposium. Berkeley: University of California Press. [WorldCat]

Boas, George. 1950. Wingless Pegasus : A Handbook for Critics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. [WorldCat]

Newhall, Beaumont. 1949. The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [WorldCat]

Hicks, Wilson. 1952. Words and Pictures : [An Introduction to Photojournalism]. New York: Harper. [WorldCat]

Wölfflin, Heinrich. 1932. Principles of Art History : The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art. . Translated by Mary Hottinger. [New York]: Dover Publications, Inc. [WorldCat] also Wölfflin, Heinrich, Evonne Anita Levy, and Tristan Weddigen. 2015. Principles of Art History : The Problem of the Development of Style in Early Modern Art. . Translated by Jonathan Blower. Los Angeles, California: Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. [WorldCat]

Underhill, Evelyn. 1942. Mysticism : A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. 14th ed. London: Methuen. [WorldCat]

Additional Books - Recommended Reading for Workshops

Eugen Herrigel: Zen and the Art of Archery (1953)

Klee, Paul, and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. 1953. Pedagogical Sketchbook. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. [WorldCat] [Bauhaus Bookself] (used for a term shooting assignment, referenced in Memorable Fancies from 1960, page 299)

Carlos Castaneda: A Separate Reality (1971)

Also Referenced by Minor White

Margaret Barber (as Michael Fairless): The Road Mender and Brother Hilarious (1903? 1921? 1931?) - This was a gift from an early lover.

P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous (1949)

Huxley, Aldous. 1954. The Doors of Perception. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. [WorldCat]

Jung, C. G., and Hellmut Wilhelm. 1967. The I Ching ; or, Book of Changes. . Translated by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes. [3d ed.], eighth printing, November 1971. [Princeton, N.J.]: Princeton University Press. [WorldCat]

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. 1968. Man and Nature : The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man. Chicago, IL: ABC International Group. [WorldCat]

Larry Wolf, composite slide (2022)