MargaretBourkeWhite

Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904. She grew up in the Bronx, New York, in 1929, she accepted a job as associate editor of Fortune magazine. In 1930, she became the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. She was hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine. Her photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam were featured in Life's first issue, dated November 23, 1936, including the cover. The cover picture became so iconic that it was eventually made into a commemorative postal stamp. In the 1930’s photographed drought victims of The Dust Bowl. Her motivation/inspiration for her work was mostly World War II, The Dust Bowl, and the India-Pakistan partition violence. She died August 27, 1971.



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