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Bourke-White, Margaret
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Bourke-White, Margaret (1906–1971)

US photographer. As an editor of Fortune magazine 1929–33, she travelled extensively in the USSR, publishing several collections of photographs. Later, with husband Erskine Caldwell, she also published photo collections of American and European subjects. She began working for Life magazine 1936, and covered combat in World War II and documented India's struggle for independence.

Born in New York and educated at Cornell Univeristy, Bourke-White began her career as a freelance industrial and architectural photographer.



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Leibovitz will be recording the people and the process involved in the creation of the building, in much the same way that the classic photographs taken by Lewis Hine and Margaret Bourke-White immortalized the construction of the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, respectively, in the 1930s.
3) ``Stringing the Grand Piano, Steinway Factory, New York City'' (1934), toned silver print, Margaret Bourke-White
Hine, along with Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke-White and Edward Steichen are among the photographers represented in "The Photograph and the American Dream" exhibition, which makes its U.
 
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