June 14, 1904 (my birthday!) – August 27, 1971
Bourke-White was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the first American female war photojournalist, and the first female photographer Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover.
"The woman who had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the Luftwaffe, stranded on an Arctic island, bombarded in Moscow, and pulled out of the Chesapeake when her chopper crashed, was known to the Life staff as 'Maggie the Indestructible."
She died of Parkinson's disease.
"The woman who had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the Luftwaffe, stranded on an Arctic island, bombarded in Moscow, and pulled out of the Chesapeake when her chopper crashed, was known to the Life staff as 'Maggie the Indestructible."
She died of Parkinson's disease.
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| Buchenwald Prisoners, 1945 (Time Inc.) Margaret Bourke-White Monroe Gallery |
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