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 Bourke-White photograph, also made around 1930, reduces a Ford blast furnace to pure abstraction.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021

For the last 10 years, Streisand has been trying to make a film about the love affair between pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and author Erskine Caldwell.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2021

Margaret Bourke-White, an American photographer who achieved true celebrity, shoots herself in a bob long enough to just about cover her ears, but this almost girlish style is more than offset by manly wool slacks.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2021

Bourke-White, who showed how strenuous the depression was in the 1930s, is featured in a new group exhibit that details how America coped in dire political and economic times.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2019

The most famous Western photographers to have visited India before Gedney were Henri Cartier-Bresson and Margaret Bourke-White, who witnessed the tumult of independence in 1947.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2017