MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
(June 14, 1904 - August 27, 1971)
For my project, I am going to pay homage to Margaret Bourke-White. To pay homage is to give acknowledgment or consideration for someone's work. Margaret was an American photographer and photo journalist. She was born in the Bronx, New York. Margaret grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey. Bourke-White began studying herpetology at Columbia University in 1922. After studying under Clarence White, she developed an interest of photography. Margaret switched colleges several times, but she finally graduated from Cornell University in 1927. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio a year later, and became an industrial photographer at the Otis Steel Company. A few years later, Henry Luce hired Margaret as the first female photo journalist for Life Magazine. During the mid-1930s, Margaret photographed victims of the Dust Bowl. Together, Bourke-White and her husband Erskine Caldwell collaborated on You Have Seen Their Faces (1937). She was the first woman allowed to work in the combat zones during the World War II. Afters years of amazing photography by Margaret Bourke-White, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and died in Connecticut.