Margaret Bourke-White
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Bread Line, 1937, silver print, printed later, 7 x 9 1/2.
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MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Electric Train Locomotive, New York, New Haven, & Hartford R.R., 1939, silver print, ca. 1939, 12 3/8 x 19. |
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
“George Washington Bridge”, 1933, silver print, ca. 1933, 13 1/8 x 8 11/16. |
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
“Coney Island Parachute Jump, New York, 1952”, 1952, silver print, 16 x 20. |
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Harry Hackett, Building Steinways, ca. 1930s, silver print, ca. 1930s, 7 1/4 x 7 3/4.
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MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Bridge & Metropolitan Tower; Cleveland, Ohio, 1929, silver print, 1929, 12 3/4 x 8 3/4. |
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Margaret Bourke-White, American 1904-1971
Margaret Bourke-White was born in New York City in 1904. She studied at the
Clarence White School of Photography at Columbia University and was a student
at several other universities before graduating from Cornell in 1927. From there
she worked as a freelance industrial and architectural photographer in Cleveland,
Ohio. In 1929 she became the first staff photographer for Fortune magazine
and in 1936 her cover photo and photographic essay on Fort Peck Dam were in the
first issue of Life magazine. Assignments for these two magazines took
Bourke-White all around the world and her association with Life magazine
made her the first official woman photographer for the U.S. armed forces. She
covered such world events as World War II action in Europe including images of
Nazi concentration camp victims and survivors, India during Gandhi's struggle
for independence, the Korean War and the social unrest in South Africa. She wrote
a number of books regarding her assignments and illustrated them with her photographs,
among them is one she collaborated on with her future husband, Erskine Caldwell,
entitled You Have Seen Their Faces which documented the difficult times
in the South during the Great Depression. In 1957 she went into semi-retirement
due to illness and 2 years later she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease which
she later died from in 1971.
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