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For the World to See: The Life of Margaret Bourke-White
A portrait of the life and career of the distinguished American photographer, Margaret Bourke-White, is accompanied by examples of her photographs
- GenresPhotography
224 pages, Hardcover
First published May 16, 1983
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April 29, 2019
Bourke-White, a well-known photographer in the 1930-40s, made a name for herself in a man’s world. She started out in advertising photography, which included trips to the Soviet Union to document that country’s industrialization-modernization efforts. Later she expanded her work to include magazine photography (Fortune Magazine and she was “one of the first four Life magazine staff photographers”). She photographed Dust Bowl impacts, pre-WWII Germany, and various WWII hot spots. The book includes a powerful picture of the citizens of Weimar who were brought to that place to view the piles of bodies at Buchenwald.
Bourke-White wrote several books and was apparently the last photojournalist to interview Gandhi before his assassination. Bourke-White asked Gandhi how he would have used non-violence to deal with the atomic bomb. He said it would have been through “prayerful action,” by which he meant that prayers would have been sent up to and felt by the pilot so that “his eyes would be open.” Bourke-White asked Tibbetts, the pilot of the Enola Gay who she knew if he had felt anything about “the people down there.” He responded by saying that “They’re so poor and miserable it probably helps them as they’d only die anyway.”
Regarding U.S. negro officers in WWII, a white ordinance officer who had earlier said to Bourke-White that he would lie awake at night thinking about the starving kids he saw in the battle zones, told her that “It makes my blood boil to see a nigger with bars on his shoulder.”
The book includes many of her photographs which are crisp and strong. She documented with an eye.
Bourke-White wrote several books and was apparently the last photojournalist to interview Gandhi before his assassination. Bourke-White asked Gandhi how he would have used non-violence to deal with the atomic bomb. He said it would have been through “prayerful action,” by which he meant that prayers would have been sent up to and felt by the pilot so that “his eyes would be open.” Bourke-White asked Tibbetts, the pilot of the Enola Gay who she knew if he had felt anything about “the people down there.” He responded by saying that “They’re so poor and miserable it probably helps them as they’d only die anyway.”
Regarding U.S. negro officers in WWII, a white ordinance officer who had earlier said to Bourke-White that he would lie awake at night thinking about the starving kids he saw in the battle zones, told her that “It makes my blood boil to see a nigger with bars on his shoulder.”
The book includes many of her photographs which are crisp and strong. She documented with an eye.
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