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Bourke-White

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

noun

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


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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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 • Nov. 5, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 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

Theater chains, RCA, Nedick’s fast food and the photographer Margaret Bourke-White were among his clients.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016