Margaret Bourke-White (1904 – 1971) was the first female photojournalist. Getting her start around 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Otis Steel Company where she worked as a female industrial photographer, Bourke-White went on to capture many iconic moments in history.
She became a staff photographer for Fortune magazine in 1929 and it was with Fortune magazine that she captured her famous portrayals of the Dust Bowl victims in the mid-1930s. She was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union and traveled there multiple times to photograph the industrial life during the First Five Year plan.
In 1936, Bourke-White accepted a position at LIFE Magazine as the first female photojournalist. Her photograph of the Fort Peck Dam is recognized worldwide as being the first cover photo for LIFE Magazine. During WWII Bourke-White was also the first female to be a war correspondent; She traveled with the US Army Air Force through North Africa and later with the US Army in Italy and Germany, capturing the horrors of combat zones. She was one of the first on the scene with General George S. Patton at the freeing of the Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald.
Bourke-White traveled to India twice during the mid-1940s where she chronicled the Indian independence movement, partition, and Gandhi during his last moments of peace prior to his assassination as well as his funeral.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Margaret Bourke-White or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
She became a staff photographer for Fortune magazine in 1929 and it was with Fortune magazine that she captured her famous portrayals of the Dust Bowl victims in the mid-1930s. She was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union and traveled there multiple times to photograph the industrial life during the First Five Year plan.
In 1936, Bourke-White accepted a position at LIFE Magazine as the first female photojournalist. Her photograph of the Fort Peck Dam is recognized worldwide as being the first cover photo for LIFE Magazine. During WWII Bourke-White was also the first female to be a war correspondent; She traveled with the US Army Air Force through North Africa and later with the US Army in Italy and Germany, capturing the horrors of combat zones. She was one of the first on the scene with General George S. Patton at the freeing of the Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald.
Bourke-White traveled to India twice during the mid-1940s where she chronicled the Indian independence movement, partition, and Gandhi during his last moments of peace prior to his assassination as well as his funeral.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Margaret Bourke-White or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Mrs Margaret Bourke-White |
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| Mrs Margaret Bourke-White at work |
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| 1928, Molten Steel, Otis Steel Company |
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| 1928, Terminal Tower [Cleveland] |
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| 1930, burlesque dancers |
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| 1930, Hats in the Garment District |
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| 1930, Russian woman using an abacus to calculate numbers in business (Moscow) |
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| 1930, Russian woman working at cloth weaving machine in a textile mill |
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| The great depression |
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| 1930, The New Tractor, Tractorstroi, USSR |
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| 1931, Bolshevic Babies in the Nursery- Amo Automobile Factory |
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| 1931, bricklayer Mikhail Tovarisch |
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| 1931, Ekaterina Dzhugashvili - Mother of Joseph Stalin |
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| 1931, Russian men dressed in tunics standing on the steps of a Workers Club (Moscow) |
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| 1931, Russian peasants riding on a wagon in Siberia (Magnitogorsk) |
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| 1931, Russian quarry workers manning hoppers of rock for making cement at factory in Siberia (Novosibirsk) |
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| 1931, Russian woman grimly holding a slab of meat as other peasant women staunchly stand by in Siberia (Magnitogorsk) |
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| 1931, Russia’s Dnieper River Dam, the world’s largest, during the beginning phase of its construction |
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| 1931, Silhouette at twilight of gigantic sculptured rendition of a Russian robot w. hand raised in a salute next to unident (Magnitogorsk) |
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| 1931, Two Russian workers eating black bread and soup at a table in front of a wall covered with Soviet Communist Workers posters in Siberia (Magnitogorsk) |
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| 1931, Woman playing a Russian button accordion as her young girl looks on (Magnitogorsk) |
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| 1932, Russian peasant women eating food from the same bowl |
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| 1935, Workers at American Woolen Co. |
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| 1936, Backstage in a Degas Setting the Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe |
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| 1936, Construction of Fort Peck Dam |
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| 1936, Fort Peck Dam |
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| 1936-37, Modern Age Books |
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| 1937, Louisville flood |
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| 1937. Dry End of Paper Machine, Union Bag & Paper Co., Savannah, GA |
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| 1939, Spinning Machines at the Industrial Rayon Corp Factory 1939 |
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| 1940, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) |
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| Women sewing flags, Brooklyn, New York, July 24, 1940. |
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| 1941, Anti aircraft tracers, Central Moscow |
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| 1941, Street bookstalls on Kuznetsky street, Moscow |
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| 1943, Women In Life Boats |
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| 1943, Women In Life Boats |
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| American soldiers attend Mass in March 1945 in the bombed cathedral of Cologne |
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| 1945, Berga Concentration Camp Survivors |
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| Buchenwald Concentration Camp, April 11, 1945, |
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| 1945, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany |
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| 1945, Deputy Mayor Ernst Kurt Lisso and his family after committing suicide by cyanide to avoid capture by US troops |
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| 1945, German Civilian Couple Threading Through the Destruction from the City's Bombing by Allied Forces |
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| Holocaust survivors, April, 1945 |
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| Overcrowded train waiting to depart from Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin (August, 1945) |
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| 1945, The Liberation of Buchenwald |
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| 1945, Truckload Dead Bodies, Buchenwald Concentration Camp |
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| 1945, Truckload Dead Bodies, Buchenwald Concentration Camp |
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| 1945, Mahatma Gandhi |
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| 1945, Mahatma Gandhi |
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| 1946, Mahatma Gandhi spinning wheel |
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| 1946, Gandhi during his morning walk with close advisors and family members, India |
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| 1947, The Great Migration India-Pakistan |
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| 1949-50, South Africa |
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| 1950, Gold Miners Nos 1139 And 5122 |
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| 1950, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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| 1950, Maroka, South Africa |
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| 1951, Coney Island |
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| 1951, La Statue de la Libertée |
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| 1954, An Approaching Storm, Hartman, Colorado |
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| Twenty Parachutes |
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| War in Russia |
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