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Margaret Bourke-White - Photographer and Photojournalist

Margaret Bourke-White's photography helped document history, while she herself was a history-maker as a female photojournalist, on the original staff of Life magazine, an associate editor of Fortune magazine from its founding, and noted for her pictures of the Soviet Union and Mahatma Gandhi.
Bourke-White: Buchenwald
Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist, of the death camp at Buchenwald, 1945.
Margaret Bourke-White
A biography of Margaret Bourke-White, with some photographs. Includes several of Gandhi, a subject for which she was well-known.
Margaret Bourke-White, A Biography: Review
Elsa Dorfman, herself a photographer, reviews a biography of Margaret Bourke-White.
Margaret Bourke-White Biography
A biography of Margaret Bourke-White. Includes an image of her photograph of a DC-4 flying over New York -- photographed from above, illustrating her ability to find unusual perspectives.

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