Heritage Lost: Two Grand Portland Houses Through the Lens of Minor White

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Minor White
Portland Oregon
Mansions

Description

In 1942, the Portland Art Museum commissioned photographer Minor White to document the splendor of 2 of Portland’s Victorian homes, the Knapp house and the Jacobs-Dolph house. This book is a rare glimpse into an architectural era long past, in addition to an examination of the early years of Minor White’s work. The eighty-two duotone reproductions mark the primary time many of those photographs have been seen in over fifty years.
Author Fred DeWolfe’s text provides insight into Victorians, their houses, and their design proclivities, and discusses the lads whose wealth built these particular houses. An introduction by Terry Toedtemeier, curator of photography for the Portland Art Museum, adds contextual details about Minor White’s work in Oregon from 1937 to 1942. The pictures lead the viewer on a tour of both houses, with an emphasis at the wealthy Victorian interiors. Stairways, doorways, windows, walls, and fixtures all show the numerous levels of detail so loved by Victorians and so compelling to the photographic eye of the young Minor White.
Minor White
Portland Oregon
Mansions
Western Architecture
Architectural Photograph

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