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| Popular As | Rory White |
| Occupation | Visual Effects |
| Age | 65 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 16, 1959 () |
| Birthday | August 16 |
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Rory White’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Rory White was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.
Rory White is known as the subject of film documentaries on his work with hard-pressed but gifted artists in Los Angeles' intense Skid Row sector. "Passing Through" 2018 (Leslie Dektor), and "Humble Beauty: Skid Row Artists" 2013 and 2008 (Judith Vogelsang and Letitia Popa Schwartz) cover Rory White as a subject, and incorporate his Skid Row still photographs.
Rory was born in Los Angeles, February 3, 1949, but then spent his early childhood in Germany, the child of a Jewish Doctor, Sidney G. White M.D., doing research on a cure for radiation poisoning following Hiroshima, and then on Hemophilia, and Rory's artist mother, Renée Lois White, who was primarily an oil painter, etcher (printmaker), and art teacher, herself a student of Richard Diebenkorn.
Rory's main art/photography/mentors were his mother and his third cousin (who functioned as a close uncle and mentor) Otto Rothschild, who did inner-city photography and was the official photographer for the Los Angeles Music Center, Hollywood Bowl, and L.
A. Philharmonic from 1930-1981. Early film inspiration included collaborations with those in UCLA's Theatre Arts Film Making Graduate Program, specifically including his brother Neal White, Susan Felter, Neil Reichline, Mohammad Sadrzadeh, and Terry Forgette.
Rory's main immersion is in still photography along with oil painting drawing, and social justice activism. In childhood, after returning from Germany, and during the Cuban Missile Crisis, his family built a crude concrete fallout or bomb shelter in the back yard, in which Rory built a darkroom in his early teens, doing both straightforward and experimental work.
Early influences in his pre-teen and teen years were Dorothea Lange and her Dust Bowl photography, "Weegee" (Arthur Fellig) and his gritty inner city photo-journalism counterpointed with his lesser-known experimental inventive darkroom work, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus and Tina Madotti.
In the mid-1970's Rory worked for Ansel Adam's in Adam's Yosemite Seminars, where he did photography and worked as a model, with Twinka Thiebaud and for Lucien Clergue, Eikoh Hosoe, Eva Rubinstein, Judy Dater, Jack Welpott, Robert Heinecken, and worked with Imogen Cunningham.
Although Rory had small, usually surreal, parts in experimental films in the late 1960's, early 1970's, ("Pescados Vivos" by Guggenheim Fellow/Fulbright Scholar, Susan Felter, and "Hopi Mountain", Sayed Mohammad Sadrzadeh), Rory became a major subject in the documentary films specifically dealing with himself and the art projects for homeless and marginalized artists that he began in Skid Row in 1998 and continuing to the present day (as of this writing, 2018).
Rory's brothers are all involved in either art or social justice work or both including Rush White MFA, retired professor of Art, (Painting and Drawing) Otis Art Institute, Neal White MFA, retired professor of Art, (Film), San Francisco State University, and Geoff White Ph.
D, retired professor of Psychology and Activist-Humanitarian.Rory lives in Los Angeles' historical town of San Pedro, CA, on the cliffs of Point Fermin.
