Discover photographer Margaret Bourke-White

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: Bourke, Margaret
White, Margaret
noemde zich vanaf 1927 Bourke-White; geboren als White, nam naam van familie van moeder aan in 1927

Qualifications: photographer

Nationality/school: American

Born: New York City 1904-06-14

Deceased: Stamford (Connecticut) 1971-08-27

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1927 - 1969
stopte in 1969 met fotograferen door de ziekte van Parkinson, die zich bij haar in 1957 openbaarde

Education: Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography (Maine)

B.A. Cornell in 1927
Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Active in

Cleveland (Ohio) 1927 - 1930
New York City 1930
Rusland 1931 - 1932
Moskou 1941
Italië 1943 - 1944
Buchenwald 1945
fotografeerde de bevrijding van Buchenwald in 1945
India 1946 - 1948
reportage
Pakistan 1946 - 1948
Zuid-Afrika 1950

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Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: journalistic photography, photojournalism

Literature

Koetzle 2002 , p. 64 (as: Margaret Bourke-White (Margaret White))

Weiermair, Peter: Photographie als Kunst 1879-1979 (tent.cat. 1979) (NFM)
Contemporary Photographers (2nd ed. 1988) (NFM)
Fulton, M.: Eyes of Time 1988, p. 299 (NFM)
Ten.8, 1989, nr. 33, p. 61 (NFM)
Dictionnaire de la Photo (Larousse, 1996) (NFM)
Misselbeck, R. (Hrsg.): Prestel-Lexikon der Fotografen (2002) (NFM)
Lenman, Robin (ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005) (NFM)
Warren, Lynne (ed.): Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (2006) (NFM)

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