Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971
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Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971
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Caldwell, Margaret Bourke-White, 1904-1971
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White, Margaret Bourke-, 1904-1971
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バーク・ホワイト, マーガレット, 1904-1971
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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent, author and photojournalist. Among her many achievements, she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures in the USSR of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She was the author of more than ten books, including her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). She received numerous awards over her career, including honorary doctorates from Rutgers University and the University of Michigan, and in 1997 she was designated a Women's History Month honoree by the National Women's History Project.
B. June 14,1904 in Bronx, NY;d. in Connecticut, August 1971.
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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Margaret Bourke-White was born in New York City and grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey. She enrolled at Columbia University in 1921 where she studied photography under Clarence H. White (no relation), a noted photographer in the Photo-Secession movement. She transferred to the University of Michigan in 1922, later took courses at Western Reserve University, and ultimately received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1927. Her first book, Eyes on Russia, resulted from an assignment documenting Russian industrialization for the magazine Fortune.
By 1931, Bourke-White was a widely recognized photojournalist when she photographed the Morningside Campus for the Columbia University Press, offering six total views for sale to the public. She continued to receive accolades for her work in photojournalism, joining the staff of Life Magazine in 1936 and serving as a correspondent in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. She was married to Everett Chapman 1924-1926 and writer Erskine Caldwell 1939-1942.
Margaret Bourke-White was born in Bronx, New York in 1904. She began studying at Columbia University, but left after a year, finally graduating from Cornell University in 1927 with a BA. After graduating from Cornell she moved with her family to Cleveland, Ohio. She was employed by the Otis Steel Company of Cleveland in 1929 to document the companies facilities. Bourke-White was the first female photojournalist to work for Life magazine and is considered one of the premier photojournalists of the 20th century. She also worked for Fortune magazine.
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War correspondents
Advertising
Advertising photography
Aerial photography
Allen, Dudley Peter, 1852-1915
Bourke
Commercial photography
Documentary photography
India
Photography, Industrial
Korean War, 1950-1953
News photographers
Photographers
Photographers
Photographs
Photography
Photography
Photography, Artistic
Photography, Military
Photojournalism
Prentiss, Francis Fleury, 1858-1937
Radicalism
War photography
Women photographers
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
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Americans
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War correspondents
News photographers
Photographers
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Bronx
NY, US
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Stamford
CT, US
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