Representative work by Margaret Bourke-White
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Artist

Margaret Bourke-White

1904–1971 · American

  • University of Michigan
  • Cornell University
  • Purdue University
  • Columbia University
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • St. Catharine Academy

Margaret Bourke-White became one of the most influential twentieth-century photojournalists through industrial photography, war reporting and assignments for Fortune and Life. She was the first female photographer for Life and one of the first women accredited as a war correspondent.

Photography; photojournalism

Major Works

  • 1936Fort Peck Dam
  • 1946Mahatma Gandhi at His Spinning Wheel
  • 1937Kentucky Flood
  • 1930Chrysler Building Gargoyle
  • 1945Buchenwald Liberation photographs
  • 1941Moscow Bombing photographs
  • 1930sUSSR Industrial photographs
  • 1950South African Gold Miners
  • 1947India Partition photographs
  • 1928Otis Steel Mill

Interviews & Writing

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