A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

White edited the magazine until 1975. At Ansel Adams' invitation White moved back to the West Coast to join Adams Dorothea Lange and Imogen Cunningham in the first American fine art photography department which was forming at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. After serving in military intelligence during World War II White moved to New York City in 1945.

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