The Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts

About this book

Founded by Ansel Adams directed by Minor White and staffed by such luminaries as Imogen Cunningham Dorothea Lange Lisette Model and Edward Weston the first fine-art photography department in the United States was created in 1946 at the California School of Fine Arts (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). Under Whites leadership and against a backdrop of revolutions in photography as an art form this dynamic faculty developed the modern photography curriculum bringing a new academic pedigree to the medium and establishing the future of photography education. The Moment of Seeing is much more than a history of the program and those who comprised it. Including Whites never-before-published writings on the teaching of photography it is also a rich gallery of iconic images by both renowned faculty members and the dedicated students they taught.