Margaret Bourke-White
14 June 1904 – 27 August 1971
Margaret Bourke-White was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, the first female war correspondent and the first woman permitted to work in combat zones during World War II. She was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union and the first female staff photographer for Life magazine.
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Life events
Born Margaret White; she later added her mother's surname Bourke to her name.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEarned her degree after studying at several universities, developing her interest in photography.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBecame a staff photographer for the newly launched Fortune magazine.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer photograph of the Fort Peck Dam appeared on the first cover of Life magazine.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWas the only foreign photographer in Moscow when German forces invaded in 1941.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPhotographed the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald as Allied forces liberated it.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCovered the partition of India and made noted portraits of Gandhi shortly before his death.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDeveloped Parkinson's disease, which increasingly limited her photographic work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied at age 67 from complications related to Parkinson's disease.
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