tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1449142611272963913..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: A huge wave / "The Blackman is the original man": John H. White: Black Chicago, early 1970sUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33466162751056648322016-12-25T03:13:51.101-08:002016-12-25T03:13:51.101-08:00John White, one of the great photojournalists, a r...<br />John White, one of the great photojournalists, a religious man, born on a Sunday into a family of preachers in North Carolina, worked for a very long time as staff photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times, winning a Pulitzer along the way (1982), before being laid off, along with the rest of the paper's photography staff, in 2013, a victim of shifting business models and iPhones.<br /><br />After the shock of getting his notice ("Right now I'm not trying to understand it"), White said, "I started June 23, 1969, and I thought, maybe after two years it will get boring... To this day, it's never boring, because you're doing it not for you, but for others."<br /><br />White believed in life as service, and took his subject to be "Ordinary, everyday people, these are the treasures, that's what's important."<br /><br />Thanks for the good word, Duncan, and all love as ever to you & K, in this thin season.<br /><br /><br />TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16384305999279363332016-12-24T10:39:13.932-08:002016-12-24T10:39:13.932-08:00White's photos of your home town remind us wha...White's photos of your home town remind us what survival looks like.<br /><br />We may surf the next wave for a while but I can't see us staying afloat.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com