Existing comment:
1982 Feature: Life In Chicago:
For more than 30 years, John White photographed Chicago. "I live in the city, I breathe the city, the city is everything."
At the Chicago Sun-Times, White covered his share of fires, murders and politics. But what he loved were uplifting pictures: dancers rehearsing at a new high school or children running joyfully through Carbini Green, Chicago's most notorious housing project. "I don't really take pictures," he said. "I capture and share life. Moments come when pictures take themselves."
White's prize-winning 1981 portfolio reflected a year in the life of the city. "The purpose was to share slices of life from all walks of life; to be the psalm of the life of people." Most people, he noted, got a steady diet of hard news. These photos gave "the benefit of the joy and peace that life has also." |