Bourke-white biography
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Bourke-white biography
Bourke-White, Margaret
Born 14 June 1904, New York, New York; died 27 August 1971 Daughter of Joseph White and Minnie E. Bourke; married
Everett Chapman, 1924; Erskine Caldwell, 1939
Margaret Bourke-White attended several universities before receiving her degree in biology from Cornell in 1927.
The death of her father during her senior year forced her to earn her own way, so she did photo work for the Cornell Alumni News. After graduation she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and began a professional career, not in biology, but in photography.
She began to make a name for herself as an industrial photographer at a time when the U.S. was falling in love with the machine.
Margaret bourke-white biography
She helped develop the techniques needed for dark/high intensity light situations such as those found in foundaries. In the spring of 1929 Henry Luce asked Bourke-White to work as an associate editor for the yet-unborn Fortune magazine.
The magazine would serve as an ideal vehicle for Bourke-White's adulation