{"id":5351813,"date":"2019-10-11T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5351813"},"modified":"2019-10-22T19:39:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:39:23","slug":"margaret-bourke-white","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/margaret-bourke-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Bourke-White"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5d8a4523bd915\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5351816 desc=\"Asset ID: 1138514. \" caption=\"Margaret Bourke-White with camera (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07202014\/1138514-e1570479614378.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Bourke-White with camera (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Margaret Bourke-White with camera (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.&#8221; Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) led the rest of us by the hand on many occasions. In 1929 she did the lead story for the first issue of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortune<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the next year was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. In 1936 she collaborated with future husband Erskine Caldwell on a book documenting the rural poor of the South, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Their-Faces-Brown-Thrasher-Books\/dp\/082031692X\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You Have Seen Their Faces<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Later that year she became\u2014along with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/alfred-eisenstaedt\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/thomas-mcavoy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas McAvoy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/peter-stackpole\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Stackpole<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014one of the four original LIFE photographers, and had the cover shot for the very first issue.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5d8a4694bd916\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5351826 desc=\"Asset ID: 5937620. \" caption=\"The first LIFE magazine cover, published November 23, 1936. Featuring Ft. Peck Dam in Montana. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\n\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07201823\/1936LC_1123-e1570479503232-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The first LIFE magazine cover, published November 23, 1936. Featuring Ft. Peck Dam in Montana. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">The first LIFE magazine cover, published November 23, 1936. Featuring Ft. Peck Dam in Montana. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)\n<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was America&#8217;s first accredited woman photographer in WWII, and the first authorized to fly on a combat mission. She was one of the first to depict the death camps, and later became the last person to interview Gandhi, six hours before he was slain. Her hundreds of thousands of photographs are about adventure, sensitivity, composition, and courage.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"double-block_5d9b66070403f\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5352879 desc=\"Asset ID: 13050821. \" caption=\"Birdseye view of near drowning victim Mary Eschner, who is reviving in the center of the crowd, at Coney Island. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07175752\/Beach_IC2-e1570471071967-782x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Birdseye view of near drowning victim Mary Eschner, who is reviving in the center of the crowd, at Coney Island. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Birdseye view of near drowning victim Mary Eschner, who is reviving in the center of the crowd, at Coney Island. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5352886 desc=\"Asset ID: 13050827. \" caption=\"Closeup portrait of an Eskimo child in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07175801\/Eskimo_IC-e1570471081169.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup portrait of an Eskimo child in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Closeup portrait of an Eskimo child in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5d9b678f04040\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5352891 desc=\"Asset ID: 13050824. \" caption=\"African American flood victims lined up to get food and clothing from a Red Cross relief station in front of an ironic billboard extolling, &quot;World&#039;s highest standard of living\/ there&#039;s no way like the American way.&quot; (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07175810\/White_C_IC-e1570471090169-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"African American flood victims lined up to get food and clothing from a Red Cross relief station in front of an ironic billboard extolling, &quot;World&#039;s highest standard of living\/ there&#039;s no way like the American way.&quot; (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">African American flood victims lined up to get food and clothing from a Red Cross relief station in front of an ironic billboard extolling, &#8220;World&#8217;s highest standard of living\/ there&#8217;s no way like the American way.&#8221; (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.&#8221; Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) led the rest of us by the hand on many occasions. 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