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A landmark retrospective on one of this century's most courageous and
respected photographers, Margaret Bourke-White features rarely seen work
from her personal archives.
Margaret Bourke-White was an internationally renowned photojournalist
who from the 1920s through the 1950s tirelessly and fearlessly recorded the
objects, people, and events that shaped history. Famous first as an
industrial photographer, then as one of the four original staff members
of Life magazine (her photograph graced its first cover), her vision and
camera took her where others had never dared to venture. Her lasting
contributions to photojournalism and documentary
photography brought her international acclaim.
Here at last is a new volume of her legendary work. More complete than
any volume published to date, this book draws from her personal archives at
Syracuse University
and includes the
entire range of her photographic
endeavors.
From her earliest industrial
photographs to striking portraits to photographic essays depicting the
most
horrendous of social conditions, the 138 dramatic black-and-white
photographs presented here brilliantly record the adventurous vision of
Margaret Bourke-White. Here are portraits of Roosevelt, Stalin, and
Gandhi,
as well as documentations of cavernous steel mills, South African coal
mines, Soviet Russia, and the impoverished streets of India.
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE, Photographer will be listed under Photography in
bookstores and online. It retails for $65.00 ($88.00 in Canada) and
contains 138 duotone illustrations.
A Bulfinch Press Book |
Informative commentaries on the breadth of Bourke-White's work complete
an
unprecedented retrospective of the work of this extraordinary
photographer.