1969
Receives tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Photographs Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Photographs the city of Boston
David H. McAlpin, Princeton University Class of 1920 and advocate for photography at Princeton, invites him to campus to give the annual Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Photography Lecture; White’s lecture is titled “Photography and Inner Growth”
Princeton University Art Museum acquires his sequence Sound of One Hand
November: Publishes Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations