Beginnings, Rochester, New York, 1962 from the Jupiter Portfolio

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White wrote extensively and sustained dialogues with fellow photographers such as Ansel Adams about the spiritual aspects of photography. “...From time to time various images in front of my eyes lift themselves up and beckon to me—I approach at their command—and make the exposure, sometimes reluctantly, but always with such a complete projection of my mental state onto the object that it seems as if the object commanded and not myself. At this intensity I photograph. The result is a record of an experience between myself and the object. The object may be a cloud, a door, a rock, a person, a situation.”

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