Bourke-White

American  

[burk-hwahyt, -wahyt] / ˈbɜrkˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt /

noun

1. Margaret, 1906–71, U.S. photographer and author.

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Bourke-White British  

/ ˌbɜːkˈwaɪt /

noun

1. Margaret . 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II

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Example Sentences

The film projects she pursued for the last decade - a biopic of photographer Margaret Bourke-White, and a movie of the musical Gypsy - have both fallen through.

From BBC

Ms. Curtis, who continued to work on projects with Ms. Burstein through an exhibition of her photos at the Venice Biennale last year, compared her Yankee Stadium photography to the project Margaret Bourke-White undertook in 1930 to depict the construction of the Chrysler Building.

From New York Times

“Like Bourke-White,” Ms. Curtis said, “Jessica scaled the structure with the support of the men and women who built the stadium to get ‘the shot.’”

From New York Times

The photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White heard the phrase “We didn’t know!” with such “monotonous frequency” that it sounded “like a kind of national chant for Germany.”

From New York Times

A painting by Charles Sheeler and a photograph by Margaret Bourke-White are juxtaposed with a glass case full of car parts, a gleaming horn, a hubcap glistening like a freshly polished silver salver, a headlight taking on talismanic power.

From Washington Post