Today’s Birthday: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (1904)

Margaret Bourke-White (1904)

One of the original staff photographers at Time, Life, and Fortunemagazines, Bourke-White was noted for her coverage of World War II. The first woman photographer to serve with US armed forces, she 

[ B ] Margaret Bourke-White – Louisville Flood (1937) (Photo credit: Cea.)

photographed the liberation of Buchenwald and was the only foreign correspondent in Moscow during the German invasion. Her pictures of the rural American South and her portraits of world leaders are also celebrated. What actress portrayed her in the movie Gandhi? More…

Margaret Bourke-White (Photo credit: TheBeachSaint)

 

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