Margaret White added her mother's surname, "Bourke", to her name in 1927 and hyphenated it. Bourke-White and novelist Erskine Caldwell were married from 1939 to their divorce in 1942.

Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer known for her contributions to photojournalism, particularly for Life magazine. She was the first female documentary …

Aug 28, 2019 · Margaret Bourke-White was born in New York City in 1904, and grew up in rural New Jersey. She went on to study science and art at multiple universities in the United States …

Learn about Margaret Bourke-White, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.

Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering photojournalist whose insightful pictures of 1930s Russia, German industry, and the impact of the Depression and drought in the American …

She was the only Western photographer to witness the German invasion of Moscow in 1941, she was the first woman to accompany Air Corps crews on bombing missions in 1942, and she …

Emerging as one of, if not the, most respected news photographer of her generation, Bourke-White was an intrepid adventurer who placed herself at the very center of some of the …

Jun 14, 2024 · One of the most famous photojournalists of the twentieth century, Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1972) united innovative viewpoints, camera angles, and lighting with a …

Margaret Bourke-White was a woman of many firsts. She was LIFE magazine’s first female staff photographer, the first Western photographer permitted to enter the Soviet Union during the …

Bourke-White’s first studio was in one of Cleveland’s latest skyscrapers. Although it was not her goal, she became one of the pioneers of industrial photography.