18 facts about Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permissible to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviet’s five-year plan, the first American female war photojournalist, and having one of her photographs (the construction of Fort Peck Dam) on the lid of the first business of Life magazine. She died of Parkinson’s sickness about eighteen years after developing symptoms.

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