Source
Margaret Bourke-White — International Center of Photography
Citation
International Center of Photography. “Margaret Bourke-White.” Constituent page in the ICP archive-browse index. Accessed 2026-05-06. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/margaret-bourke-white
Relevance
Tier-1 institutional archive page for Margaret Bourke-White at ICP. Reference for her biographical anchor (1904–1971; one of the original four LIFE staff photographers, 1936). Bourke-White has six plates in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-06).
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the page fetched 2026-05-06:
- Birth and death dates given as “1904–1971”; nationality “American”.
- “She was one of the first four photographers hired” for Life magazine in 1936; “her photograph Fort Peck Dam reproduced on the first cover.”
- “She was the only Western photographer to witness the German invasion of Moscow in 1941.”
- “The first woman to accompany Air Corps crews on bombing missions in 1942.”
- She “photographed major international events and stories, including Gandhi’s fight for Indian independence, the unrest in South Africa, and the Korean War.”
- “Contracted Parkinson’s disease in 1953 and made her last photo essay for Life, ‘Megalopolis,’ in 1957.”
Notes
- Perspective: institutional / archival.
- The ICP page does not give exact birth or death day-month tokens (June 14, 1904 / August 27, 1971) — these are recorded via the Wikipedia pointer (src-wikipedia-bourke-white-pointer) and remain at pointer-tier. Promotion to Tier 1/2 awaits a fetch of the Vicki Goldberg biography or Syracuse University Special Collections finding aid.
- The 1936 four-original-LIFE-photographer roster (Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Thomas McAvoy, and Peter Stackpole) is independently confirmed by the Eisenstaedt ICP page (src-icp-eisenstaedt-archive, fetched 2026-05-06) — the two ICP pages corroborate each other on this membership.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-06.