Margaret Bourke-White was a famous American photographer and journalist. She was born in New York in 1904. She went to Columbia University and transferred to the University of Michigan where she met her husband. She majored in biology however did a lot of photography throughout her years of schooling. In 1929 she was hired to be a photographer for the magazine Fortune. She traveled to Germany and Russia where she photographed the Soviet Union's plan for industrialization. She was the first woman and photographer to be permitted to photograph the Soviet Union. In 1934 her work on Dust Bowl farmers was published in Fortune, Vanity Fair and the New York Times. In 1936 she became a photographer for Life magazine. Margaret Bourke-White was the first woman photographer attached to the US military and she documented the horrors of World War II in Germany. She photographed Gandhi hours before he was assassinated and documented the Korean war in 1952. That same year she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and died in 1971.
Photo by: Margaret Bourke-White
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This photograph is one of my favorites of Bourke-White's work. The light hits the subjects in a mysterious way as they are looking of into the distance. Also, the subject of the photo is very powerful because it shows two black figures in a cave working in very hot conditions shown by their sweat. The people do not appear to be happy showing this might be a result of racial discrimination or they are unable to find better work.
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