Past Recipients

Lessons in Photography: Minor White before Aperture 

This project examines White’s visual and textual production from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Starting from White’s attention to problems of camera format, it charts his evolving conception of photographic “experience” and its influence upon the eventual editorial direction of Aperture magazine. 

Brendan Fay is an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary art history. He completed his dissertation on photography and abstraction at Harvard University and works on issues related to modernism and photographic education in the United States. Additional research interests include problems of abstraction and materiality in contemporary photography, along with aspects of performance, sound, and new media. His writing has appeared in History of Photography, Artforum, and Exposure. His current projects include a catalogue raisonné of color photographs by László Moholy-Nagy.