Margaret Bourke-White
Plates contributed
The 6 plates attributed to Margaret Bourke-White in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0152 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0337 | Korea | Death and mourning | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0348 | Czechoslovakia | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0350 | Korea | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0366 | India | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0426 | South Africa | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Six plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-06): photo-0152 (Section 15 Work A, USA), photo-0337 (Section 27 Death, Korea), photo-0348 (Section 28 Religious Expression, Czechoslovakia), photo-0350 (Section 28 Religious Expression, Korea), photo-0366 (Section 29 Aloneness and Compassion, India), photo-0426. All credited ‘LIFE, American’ in the MoMA Master Checklist. Checklist nationality: American. Born 1904; died 1971 per src-icp-bourke-white-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-06). The June 14, 1904 / August 27, 1971 day-month tokens and the New York City / Stamford CT place tokens carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-bourke-white-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-06). Gender ‘female’ supported by src-icp-bourke-white-archive (in repo) which uses she/her pronouns and references her standing as one of America’s first accredited woman photographers in WWII (paraphrase carried from src-life-archive-bourke-white-bio in repo, which is itself paraphrased summary of the live LIFE archive page; not literally verbatim) — meeting the plan.md §17 Q16 ‘documented in a reputable source’ bar. One of the original four LIFE staff photographers in 1936 (paraphrase from src-icp-bourke-white-archive: Bourke-White was one of the first four photographers hired); her Fort Peck Dam was on LIFE’s first cover (November 23, 1936). India and Korea plates likely draw on her Gandhi-era reportage and her Korean War coverage respectively (general framing from her career chronology in src-life-archive-bourke-white-bio; specific plate-to-assignment matches NOT verified at the plate level).
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/margaret-bourke-white
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