Margaret Bourke-White

Photographer

Birthday June 14, 1904

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace The Bronx, NY

DEATH DATE Aug 27, 1971 (67)

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About

Broke the glass ceiling for female photographers and ushered in a kind of vocational expansion in photography.

Before Fame

She learned perfectionism from her father, and the constant desire to improve from her mother.

Trivia

She was the first foreigner allowed to photograph Soviet industry, as well as the first female war photographer.

Family Life

She was married to Everett Chapman for two years.

Associated With

Farrah Fawcet portrayed her in a movie about her life called Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White.