Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Margaret Bourke White


Blurb:
  • Born 1904
  • Photographed for Life magazine (first woman)
  • Worked during the depression and dust bowl
  • photoed Auschwitz tragedies
  • fist woman documentary photographer 
  • started photographing as a hobby
  • photographed design in factories and industrial architecture 
  • photographed in Germany for Fortune magazine
  • went to Russia during industrialization and photographed for Life magazine 
  • married to novelist and worked on photo projects with him
  • did photo essays of Dust Bowl, Germany, and Soviet Union
  • photographed WWII and in India with Mohandas Gandhi 
  • very modern women for the time she was living