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  Profotos - Minor White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Biography: Minor White was an American photographer, educator, poet and a critic.
Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1908.
White edited much of Aperture during these years and much of his significant work was produced during this period, including "Windowsill." In 1965, White became professor of photography at the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), where he served until 1976 when he passed away.
www.profotos.com /education/referencedesk/masters/masters/minorwhite/minorwhite.shtml   (407 words)

  
  Minor White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "equivalents" of White were often photographs of barns, doorways, water, the sky, or simple paint peeling on a wall: things usually considered mundane.
White spent the last ten years of his life teaching at MIT where, among others, he taught Raymond Moore.
White was a closeted bisexual and felt tormented through much of his life by his then socially-unacceptable feelings for young men.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minor_White   (614 words)

  
 Chicago White Sox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White Sox were a frequent contender during the early 20th century, winning 5 of the first 19 league pennants; but the team's fortunes dropped precipitously in the aftermath of what is considered the greatest scandal in the history of the sport.
The White Sox have recently found a contender in the Detroit Tigers, who currently are fighting with the Sox for first in the Central Division after finishing fourth in the 2005 season.
On the south side, in contrast, the White Sox management's threats to move the team to Tampa Bay in the late 1980s, banishment of fan favorite Andy the Clown from the ballpark, and a significant role in the 1994 strike, all further demoralized the fan base.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_White_Sox   (9559 words)

  
 The Tech - Dreams with a memory- Minor White remembered
Minor White was one of the most influential, inscrutable, and interesting photographers of all.
Minor White taught at MIT from 1965 until his death in 1976.
This disturbed some students who came "to study photography, not crawl around on the floor," and White was criticized for creating "little imitation Minor Whites." Still, many came away dazzled by White, with a deeper understanding of their selves and of the creative process of seeing.
www-tech.mit.edu /V105/N57/nudewh.57a.html   (719 words)

  
 Minor White
Minor White (1908-76) was one of the greatest American photographers of the period after the Second World War as well as one of the greatest teachers of the medium.
White was a deeply religious man whose whole life was a spiritual journey.
White was a truly great teacher, but one who tended to overpower his students, turning out too many who mimicked his methods but with little real understanding or talent.
www.vasculata.com /minor_white.htm   (2414 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> White, Minor
Minor Martin White was born on July 9, 1908 in Minneapolis to Charles Henry White, a bookkeeper, and Florence Martin White, a dressmaker.
At the university, White also learned the rudiments of photography, wrote poetry, and, after a hiatus in his education, obtained a B. degree in botany, with a minor in English, in 1934.
A meeting White had with Alfred Stieglitz in which the two artists discussed the older photographer's theory of Equivalents was a seminal event in White's life, especially as this meeting was coupled with viewing a retrospective exhibition of Edward Weston's work.
www.glbtq.com /arts/white_m.html   (770 words)

  
 Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog
The White Caps moved on to the Midwest League finals with some solid pitching from Matt O’Brien and a nice team effort at the plate.  O’Brien gave up just two runs (one earned) on seven hits in five solid frames in the 6-3 win.
All six runs were driven in by different White Caps and only Jeramy Laster had more then one hit.  It got the job done though.  Gorkys Hernandez singled and he was the only hitter to both drive in and score a run.
The White Caps ended their regular season with a whimper as they were blown out by the Lugnuts 12-3.  Ramon Garcia fell to 0-1 and he gave up six runs on seven hits and two walks with two strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings.
tigersminors.com   (1760 words)

  
 Browse by Title - Norton Simon Museum
Minor White was an artist, theoretician, educator, editor, and critic.
In 1946, Minor White met Alfred Stieglitz and embraced his concepts of "straight" photography and "Equivalence." Straight photography was an aesthetic idea based on the direct recording of images without manipulative techniques.
White organized the photographs in terms of the emotions and feelings produced by the images and the relationships between them.
www.nortonsimon.org /collections/browse_title.asp?id=PH.1970.060   (80 words)

  
 Inductee Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Minor White was an American photographer, educator, editor and critic.
White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and studied botany at the University of Minnesota.
White believed that taking and viewing a photograph are spiritual, intellectual acts.
www.iphf.org /inductees/mwhite.html   (265 words)

  
 Pacific Crest Groundcovers - Vinca, Pachysandra, Fragaria, Grasses, & Other Groundcovers
The leaves are deep green with flowers that are lilac to white, born in the early summer.
It is mostly evergreen with white flowers in the spring and red fruit in the fall.
It has white to pink bell shaped flowers in late spring to early summer and purple to fl fruit in the fall.
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 Chicago White Sox News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CLEVELAND -- The Chicago White Sox have acquired minor league pitchers Onan Masaoka, Gary Majewski and outfielder Jeff Barry from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for veteran pitcher James Baldwin and cash considerations.
The right-hander was traded by the White Sox, along with two other pitchers, to the Dodgers for Antonio Osuna on March 19.
He was selected by the White Sox in the fourth round of the June 1990 draft.
whitesox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/cws/news/cws_news_story.jsp?article_id=cws_20010726_baldwin_news&team_id=cws   (490 words)

  
 TIME, SPACE & MOTION BOOKS - Old Books Used Books Out of Print Books Rare Books Book Search Online Bookseller Bookstore ...
Minor spine bumping, hd and ft. Minor soiling to spine.
Minor edge-creasing, mainly at hd and ft of spine.
Minor spine bumping, hd and ft. Corners are sharp.
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 CNNSI.com - Baseball - Offseason trades - Wednesday January 30, 2002 12:19 AM
Dec. 21 -- Acquired minor league pitchers Dan Mozingo and Jim Sweeney from the Chicago White Sox for minor league outfielder Scott Bikowski and minor league infielder Josh Shaffer.
Dec. 21 -- Acquired minor league outfielder Scott Bikowski and minor league infielder Josh Shaffer from the Anaheim Angels for minor league pitchers Dan Mozingo and Jim Sweeney.
Dec. 18 -- Acquired pitcher Gabe White and minor league pitcher Luke Hudson from the Colorado Rockies for infielder Pokey Reese and pitcher Dennys Reyes.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/news/2002/01/20/offseason_trades   (1968 words)

  
 Museum of Contemporary Photography: White, Minor
Critic, mentor, teacher, and influential photographer, Minor White is known for his sharply detailed photographs of architectural elements, landscape, and nude figures.
Influenced by close personal relationships with Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Weston, Minor White is best known for sharply focused, tonally beautiful fl-and-white prints which function as metaphors.
Born in Minneapolis in 1908, White died in 1976; his archive is located at the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey.
www.mocp.org /collections/permanent/white_minor.php   (220 words)

  
 Gordon Coale Weblog Entry - 11/25/2003
Minor White had an extremely influential impact on the medium of photography, in both the constructing of its history and the formulating of a picture making methodology.
As an Artist, White produced important sequences and bodies of photographs that investigate the mediums potential for metaphor and the creation and combination of syntax.
The photographs of Minor White are among all the major collections of photography, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
www.electricedge.com /greymatter/archives/00004329.htm   (290 words)

  
 Chicago White Sox Tickets - White Sox MLB Baseball - White Sox Ticket Brokers
The White Stockings were established in 1900 when owner Charles Comiskey moved his minor league team, the St. Paul Saints, to Chicago.
In April of that year the team was officially renamed the White Sox and a year later the team became a charter member of the American League.
The White Sox moved into the newly opened Comiskey Park in 1910, where several great batsmen led the White Sox to prominence from 1915 to 1919.
www.coasttocoasttickets.com /mlb/whitesox_tickets.shtml   (761 words)

  
 Minor White: Nude, Portland, Oregon (1987.1100.498) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
From a background in botany and documentary photography, White developed into an artist whose extreme personal investment in the metaphorical significance of photographic form wrought beautiful images swathed in spirituality.
Here, as was typical of White, the body's contours and volumes breathe warmth throughout the image, so that it pulsates with life without attenuating into pure erotica or kitsch.
White's talent for such a transformation permeated all of his work, no matter what the subject—barn, landscape, human form, street scene—so that the spirit and spirituality of living inhabited every corner of his images.
www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/pmet/hod_1987.1100.498.htm   (145 words)

  
 ESPN.com - White Sox minor-league report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Although 2001 was a disappointing season for White Sox fans, there is hope for the future.
Their first pick was a home-state choice: Kris Honel, a high school pitcher from New Lenox, with a 93-mph fastball, a fine curve, and good polish for a cold-state pitcher.
Overall, this is a typical White Sox draft class, heavy on hard-throwers with a few intriguing position guys mixed in.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1319526&type=feature   (858 words)

  
 How Music REALLY Works!, Chapter 5: How Keys and Modes REALLY Work
To play a scale in the key of A minor, you start on the note A and play the white notes only, up to the next A. Every major key, such as the key of C major, has a “related” minor key, such as the of A minor.
Since the relative minor scale always starts at scale degree 6 of the major scale, it's clear from Figure 33 above that the relative minor of G major must be E minor.
It's the same as the Aeolian mode, also known as the descending melodic minor (white keys on the piano, starting and ending with A), except that you raise the seventh note by a semitone.
www.howmusicreallyworks.com /Pages_Chapter_5/5_3.html   (3915 words)

  
 Vinca minor
Vinca minor 'Bowles' - has larger foliage that tends to mound instead of creep or trail, and flowers that are slightly larger and more dense with an intense blue or purple color; the standard and most common form available
minor translates as "small", denoting that this is the smaller-foliaged of the two common groundcover species.
Vinca minor is a good evergreen groundcover in partial shade with small Spring blue-purple flowers.
www.hcs.ohio-state.edu /hcs/TMI/Plantlist/vi_minor.html   (513 words)

  
 Chicago White Sox News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The White Sox general manager added veteran infielder Roberto Alomar, outfielder Carl Everett, and relief pitchers Scott Schoeneweis and Scott Sullivan, all with the thought of pushing the team to an American League Central title and even further into the post-season.
But the minor leagues are more about the development of the individual prospects than the success of the overall teams.
The White Sox were lucky enough to produce at both levels.
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/cws/news/cws_news.jsp?ymd=20031013&content_id=576906&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cha   (1180 words)

  
 Minor White 's quotes @ PhotoQuotes.com - Quotations from the World of Photograpy
The state of mind of a photographer while creating is a blank...For those who would equate "blank" with a kind of static emptiness, I must explain that this is a special kind of blank.
This unexpected image was the record of an inner state that I did not remember seeing and he did not remember experiencing at the moment of exposure.
The time and space between photographs is filled by the beholder, first of all from himself, then from what he can read in the implications of design, the suggestions springing from treatment, and any symbolism that might grow from within the subject itself.
www.photoquotes.com /ShowQuotes.asp?ID=25&Name=White,_Minor&Type=Q   (1303 words)

  
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The Minnesota Twins have signed journeyman left-hander Gabe White to a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training.
White joins veteran Dennys Reyes as left-handers who have been given minor-league deals by the Twins.
White split time last year between the Cardinals and Triple-A. The 34-year-old has been in the majors since 1994 and pitched for five teams.
www.kare11.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=115854   (165 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For my artist of choice to emulate, I researched photographer, educator, and poet Minor White in order to produce this final print of mine based on his style.
As far as his photography is concerned, White was largely a textural photographer.
I also spent a great deal of time on the richness of the skyline, since White himself was very talented in illuminating clouds against thick grays in the sky.
www.lkgeorge.org /art_alexm/artistemu.htm   (141 words)

  
 Bio-Miner, Mahala-White
Mahala (Minor) White was born on April 23, 1823 on the family farm at Sego, Perry County, near Zanesville, OH, the daughter of Daniel and Peggy (Fluckey) Minor Sr.
Their children were Lester White, Helen Clark, Layton White and Frances Jeanette 'Nettie' Bailey.
In 1931, on a visit to the old Minor homestead in Morrow County, OH, grandson Roscoe C.
www.minerd.com /bio-miner,_mahalawhite.htm   (565 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Major League Baseball - White Sox minor-league report
The White Sox concentrated on pitching in recent drafts; as a result, their minor-league system now has what is likely the deepest well of young pitching talent in the game today.
The one danger for the White Sox now is complacency.
The big name for the White Sox in the 2000 draft was Stanford outfielder Joe Borchard, their first-round pick.
espn.go.com /mlb/heaters/chwminors.html   (698 words)

  
 Greene & Greene Collection, Photographs by Minor White: NODATE
Minor White (1908-1976) was an influential American photographer, writer and editor.
White's photographs are included in numerous collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman House in Rochester, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Thorsen, William R. [Front elevation] Pencil inscription on verso: Minor White, photographer, San Francisco.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/avery/greene/html/subs/gg3.8.html   (172 words)

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