Minor White
1975
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View on museum website →Medium
offset lithograph
Dimensions
image: 8 × 5.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/16 in.) sheet: 8.9 × 6.3 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Accession Number
2015.19.4461.5
Art Historical Context
In 1975, conceptual artist Mike Mandel created *Minor White*, a diminutive offset lithograph portrait (8 × 5.5) honoring the influential photographer Minor White, a key figure in mid-20th-century American photography known for his poetic, spiritual approach to the medium. This small-scale work, now part of the National Gallery of Art's Coran Collection, captures White in a style that nods to Mandel's playful subversion of photographic conventions during the vibrant conceptual art scene of the 197s. Offset lithography, a commercial printing technique, allowed Mandel to produce affordable, repr...
About the Artist
Mike Mandel
Mike Mandel, born in 1950 in Los Angeles and raised in the burgeoning San Fernando Valley amid freeways, billboards, and strip malls, drew early inspiration from this media-saturated landscape. He earned a BA in Philosophy from California State University, Northridge in 1972 before pursuing an MFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, where he met lifelong collaborator Larry S...