Margaret bourke white

Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints, the gallery includes such masters…

New York circa 1934. "Margaret Bourke-White with her camera atop a stainless steel eagle projecting from the sixty-first floor of the Chrysler Building, overlooking Manhattan and the Hudson River." Gelatin silver print from a photograph by Bourke-White's darkroom assistant Oscar Graubner. Her backdrop is Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, completed in 1933. From www.shorpy.com

Margaret Bourke-White. Chain Belt Movement: Machine Dance Moscow Ballet School. 1935. Photogravure. 9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm). Purchase. 393.1942.11. © 2024 Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photography

Margaret Bourke-White, Photojournalist.

Hats in the Garment District, New York, 1930

Margaret Bourke-White. Fort Peck Dam, Montana. 1936. Gelatin silver print. 13 × 10 1/4" (33.0 × 26.0 cm). Gift of Life Magazine. 47.1964. © 2024 Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photography

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) was a woman of firsts: the first foreign journalist allowed to take pictures of industries in the Soviet Union; the first female photographer hired by Life magazin…

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Learn about Margaret Bourke-White, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.