Clarence H. White

Clarence White was born in West Carlisle, Ohio, and raised in Newark, where he worked as a bookkeeper while teaching himself photography. After visiting the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, he took up the medium and within a few years was internationally recognized for his Pictorialist photographs capturing the spirit of turn-of-the-century American domestic life. He co-founded the Photo-Secession in 1902 with Alfred Stieglitz and later established the Clarence H. White School of Photography, where Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White studied.