Kenneth Hawkins
Kenneth Hawkins, who holds a PhD in history from the University of Rochester, co-edited the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, vols. 6 and 7, and wrote about Portland artist Roswell Dosch for vol. 85 of the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He compiled the first inventory of Minor White’s original WPA negatives at the Oregon Historical Society in 1978, and consulted about them for OHS and the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum in 2016. He has been an archivist and program manager at the National Archives and Records Administration since 1993.
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Minor White (1908-1976)
Minor White was an American photographer, teacher, and writer whose career began in Oregon during the New Deal (1937-1942), when he documented historic buildings and landscapes and taught photography. In 1952, he was the editor of Aperture, a journal of photography he founded with Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and others. In …
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