Her birth name is Margaret White, she added Bourke, her mother's maiden name, to sound more professional. She was born on June 14, 1904, in Bronx, New York. She died on August 27, 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut due to Parkinson's Disease. She attended Columbia University, University of Michigan, Case Western Reserve University, and Cornell University. She never went to college for photography, her line of work stemmed from her passion for photography.
Margaret Bourke-White was the first female documentary photographer to work with the U.S. army and the first foreign photographer that was allowed to document and take pictures in the Soviet Union after the revolution. She worked for Life magazine, and was one of the first four photographers on staff for Life magazine and shot the first cover of the magazine. She documented the Dust Bowl in the American Midwest, the concentration camps that the Nazi regime left and the North African campaign. She traveled to India to to photograph Mohandas Gandhi, just a few hours before his assassination. During the Korean War, she worked with the U.S. armed forces and traveled with South Korean troops.
Margaret Bourke-White wrote the book Shooting the Russian War (1942), about the siege of Moscow. Margaret Bourke-White and her husband Erskine Caldwell wrote three illustrated books. One is You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), which is about sharecroppers in the Southern United States. The second one is North of the Danube (1939), which is about what life was like in Czechoslovakia before the Nazi's invaded and took over. The third book is Say, Is This the U.S.A. (1941), which is about the industrialization in the United States. While living with Parkinson's Disease, she wrote her autobiography Portrait of Myself.
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