In 1982, while at the Chicago Sun-Times, White won the Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism.
His work embodied life in Chicago, often focusing on the Black experience. The joy of a baptism at the 31st Street Beach, the terror of a gas explosion at Cabrini-Green, the beauty of young ballet students in a quest for perfection.
"Pictures are my friends," White said."They speak to me. They have a language of their own and they're living moments.":"I like pictures. I love pictures. But it's the connection to the human spirit. The most important thing is humanity." That humanity is what stand out to Richard Cahan. He was the pictures editor at the Sun-Times from 1983 to 1999 and worked with White all that time.
"He sees things that other people don't see," Cahan said."He takes a look at a fire scene or a demonstration and he knows exactly where to go and he puts himself in that position and he takes photographs that other people don't take. There are people that go to those assignments and they go 'I never even saw this,' and there John was.""And to grow up in the South and see the things these eyes saw, that hurts now," he said.
And White hopes to enrich the photographers that will follow him. He's taught at Chicago's Columbia College for the last 45 years.
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