Later in Life: Minor White Cont.

White then moved to San Francisco where he worked with Ansel Adams who taught White his zone system. It was a method of visualizing how a scene or object will look on the final print once photographed. After Minor had became the director of the photography department of the California School of Fine Arts, he had made a new friend. He started working with Edward Weston. White was influenced by Weston's use of realism and tonal beauty in his photography. White also used some aspects of Zen to help him create mystical interpretations. Finally in 1952 White had moved back to New York City and became the editor of the photography magazine, Aperture that him and his friends had founded.