Wednesday, March 23, 2022

 Margaret Bourke-White

(1904 - 1971)
 

Margaret Bourke-White an American photographer and documentary photographer, became arguably best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' five-year plan, as the first American female war photojournalist, and for having one of her photographs (on the construction of Fort Peck Dam) on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. She died of Parkinson's disease at age 67, about eighteen years after developing symptoms.  


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White

Queue of black residents of Louisville KY waiting for distribution of relief supplies 

during the 1937 Ohio River flood

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