"When we point smartphones at our kids or smile for a selfie, we're not necessarily thinking of photography as an art form. But in the early days of the medium, when big cameras and flashbulbs were lugged around and propped on tripods, art was often the goal. An exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles focuses on the work of one such photographer, Minor White."

"Curator Paul Martinau finds the name "Minor" appropriate. 'It has a relationship to music and the minor key, which is somewhat of an unusual quirky key, and that fits in with his own personality,' he says."

"An outsider with a quirky sense of humor, White had different ideas, Martinau says. He was brave in what he chose to photograph, at a time when some subjects were dangerous."