Croton Reservoir
1925 · Gelatin silver print
3 11/16 × 4 5/8" (9.3 × 11.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Clarence H. White
American, 1871
Newark, OH, United States
PhotographyPhotography
Representation
None documented
19
Institutional Exhibitions
117
Works in Collection
210
Assets Indexed
7
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Publications Referenced
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Reinstallation of the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Selections from the Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Photography: Recent Acquisitions, 1974�1976
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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Photography for Collectors
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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Why this artist matters now
Clarence H. White was an American photographer and educator who pioneered pictorialist photography in the early 20th century, using soft focus, tonal gradation, and carefully composed domestic and landscape scenes to elevate the medium toward fine art. His work emphasized mood and poetic effect over documentary precision, influencing a generation of photographers through his teaching and his founding of the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York. White's commitment to photography as a fine art form rather than a mechanical process established foundational practices in photographic education and aesthetics that extended well beyond his death in 1925.
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