Stephen White has been a gallery owner, collector, curator and historian of photography since he opened a gallery in Los Angeles in 1975. He has been collecting photographs related to California's growth and development over the past twenty-five years and has more than one thousand images that tell the visual story of California from the nineteenth century forward. He has published several catalogues to accompany major museum traveling exhibitions he previously curated or co-curated and has written extensively on every aspect of photography history and contemporary photography.