Noise is the presence of color specks in a photograph.
1940’s America was a cruel place for blacks. Segregation was imbedded in the code of law as well as the everyday fabric of life.
Defying caricature, White saw the people with whom he shared a culture as much more than marginalized and dimensionless.
Throughout capturing African Americans in a chronicle way, White's works not only represent an epitome of unfair discrimination which has been morally justified, but also speaking for the lower class of color people at them time, their strength to fight, and their shine in eyes will not surrender to this desperate, frustrating reality.
Relief printing is done by outlining an image on a surface, and then carving along the outline. The artist then applies the raised areas with ink, to be pressed on to a surface. Intaglio is sort of the opposite of relief printing, in that the ink is pushed into the lines and pits and wiped off the surface of the plate. The resulting image comes from the ink in the engraved or etched lines. The resulting image is reversed.
