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Photojournalist John H. White's 40-Year Career Celebrated With Exhibit

 A John H. White photo featured in the Gage Gallery show illustrates a story about the Chicago Housing Authority.
A John H. White photo featured in the Gage Gallery show illustrates a story about the Chicago Housing Authority.
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THE LOOP — A three-month exhibition in Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery at 18 S. Michigan Ave. will celebrate the 40-plus-year career of Chicago photojournalist John H. White.

Opening Thursday and running through Dec. 20, "Faith, Focus, Flight: A John H. White Retrospective" will showcase 76 photos taken by White, 72, during the course of his career in Chicago news that spanned more than four decades.

Snapping history-making photos first for the Daily News starting in 1969 and later for the Sun-Times, White left the newspaper business when the Sun-Times in June 2013 laid off its entire full-time photography staff, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner, whose work has earned more than 300 professional awards.

White will give a presentation at the exhibition's opening reception at 5 p.m. Thursday. Iconic photos featured in the series include shots of Walter Payton, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, local and national figures and headline-grabbing events from Chicago's history.

The White exhibition is the first in a three-part Chicago photojournalism series hosted at the Gage Gallery during the 2014-2015 academic year. The full series, titled “Above the Fold: 10 Decades of Chicago Photojournalism,” is co-curated by Tyra Robertson, director of instructional technology and an instructor in the Communication Department at Roosevelt, and Tribune Picture Editor Michael Zajakowski.

“Faith, Focus, Flight: A John H. White Retrospective” is free and open to the public from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays.

The White exhibit will be followed by “Crime Then and Now: Through the Lens of the Chicago Tribune,” running Jan. 22-April 11, then by “Chicago Reader in Black & White,” on display June 4-Aug. 28.

For more information visit the Gage Gallery website or call 312-341-6458.

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