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Oscar Graubner, 1931, Margaret Bourke-White on the Chrysler Building, Gelatin silver print, LIFE, LL/32153
Margaret Bourke-White

Born: Margaret White

Born: 1904, 14 June - US, NY, New York
Died: 1971, 27 August - US, CT, Stamford
Gender: Female
Active: US / USSR / Germany
 
Studied at the Clarence H. White School of Photography. American photographer noted for her industrial shots, often for the magazine ‘Fortune‘ and her work in Germany and Soviet Union in the 1930s. Later she photographed the social impact of the American dustbowl and parts of this work was published in her 1937 book ‘You Have Seen Their Faces‘ (New York) in which she collaborated with the writer, and her husband, Erskine Caldwell. She photographed for Fortune (1930-1936) and she was the first female photographer for LIFE magazine and worked with them extensively from from 1936 onwards. She also took the photograph of the Fort Peck Dam that was used on the front cover of the first issue of Life on 23 November 1936.
 
She covered major events including campaigns during the Second World War in Africa, Germany, Italy and Russia; the partition of India and Korea's guerilla war.
 
The Margaret Bourke-White Papers are archived at Syracuse University Library.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.d., LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White and her camera, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/80005
Image: LL/80005
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Margaret Bourke-White, 1927, Margaret Bourke-White's 1927 Cornell University yearbook photo, Book page, detail, Private collection of David Lowe, LL/65620
Image: LL/65620
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Oscar Graubner, 1931, Margaret Bourke-White on the Chrysler Building, Gelatin silver print, LIFE, LL/32153
Image: LL/32153
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H. Richardson Cremer (active 1920s-1940s), 1933, Portrait of Margaret Bourke-White with her photographs behind her., Silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/115073
Image: LL/115073
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Margaret Bourke-White, 1933, Self-portrait with Camera, Gelatin silver print, LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LL/84948
Image: LL/84948
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Oscar Graubner, 1934, Margaret Bourke-White, working atop the Chrysler Building, Gelatin silver print, Klotz / Sirmon Gallery (CLOSED), LL/3327
Image: LL/3327
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H. Richardson Cremer, 1935 (ca), Portrait of Margaret Bourke-White with her camera., Gelatin silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/125708
Image: LL/125708
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Margaret Bourke-White, 1935 (ca), Delineator, Self Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Private collection of Henri van der Tol, LL/77133
Image: LL/77133
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Sunil Janah, 1944, Margaret Bourke White, South India, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Ram Rahman, LL/91975
Image: LL/91975
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Margaret Bourke-White, 1951, 1 April, LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White holding camera, Gelatin silver print, LIFE, LL/32151
Image: LL/32151
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Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1959, Eyes of photographer Margaret Bourke White, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease., Gelatin silver print, LIFE, LL/32150
Image: LL/32150
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Walter Daran, 1965 (ca), American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White (1906 - 1971) showing a print of the photograph she took for the first cover of 'Life' magazine, Gelatin silver print, LIFE, LL/32149
Image: LL/32149
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Studied photography with Clarence White. First staff photographer for Fortune (1929), specializing in factories and machines. One of the original four staff photographers for LIFE (1933), where she produced the cover for its first 1936 issue, the Fort Peck Dam, Montana. Her photographs were included in Erskine Caldwell's You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), a gritty document of the Depression in the South. First official World War II woman military photographer, providing coverage from the German attack into Russia (1941) to the liberation of Buchenwald (1945). Continued working for LIFE into the 1950s, documenting the world from India during and after Gandhi to the mines of South Africa.
 
(Author: RH)
 
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
Wikipedia
 
Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 - August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan, was the first American female war photojournalist, and took the photograph (of the construction of Fort Peck Dam) that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.
 

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