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Abstraction: The Bird with the Misplaced Heart
Creator
Minor WhiteAmerican Photographer · 1908–1976
All works by this person →>...I found a name for some of my own photographs. I always photograph found objects; excepting portraits, all of my photographs are of found objects. And now, thinking of the best of them, I hear little crashes tinkling back twenty years, for the best of them have always been photographs that found themselves. Minor White took up photography in college, making photomicrographs as a biology major.
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- 1948
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 16982add-b754-4cb3-86de-3f8e2a67ad7d
This photograph depicts the side of an unidentified building in San Francisco, featuring a crocheted shade pull that can be seen through a broken window behind a metal screen. The outline of the shattered pane resembles a pictograph of a bird.
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