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Minor White: The Eye That Shapes

by Peter C. Bunnell

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Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition opening at The Museum of Modern Art and travelling until 1991, this is a publication of White's work using the artist's extensive personal archive bequeathed to Princeton University on his death.

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Superbely produced art book. An excellent biography and the reproduced pictures speak for themselves.

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Peter C. Bunnell

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George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award (Winner – 1990)

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Genres: Art & Design, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 779.092 — Arts & recreation Photography Photographic images Photographs by origin of artist Collections by individual photographers
LCC: TR647 .W458 — Technology Photography Photography Applied photography

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Languages: English
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Published: 1989
Genres: Art & Design, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 779.092
LCC: TR647 .W458

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Peter C. Bunnell

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