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Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)
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Margaret Bourke-White
American Woolen, Co., Lawrence, Massachusetts 1935
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Margaret Bourke-White
Coiled rod, (ready for drawing into wire), Aluminum Co. of America 1939
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Margaret Bourke-White
Gandhi, India 1946
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Margaret Bourke-White
Plow Blades, Oilver Chilled Plow Co. 1930
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Biography |
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1904 |
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Born: Bronx, New York |
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1922 |
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Studied Herpetology(the study of reptiles) at Columbia University |
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1923 |
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Transferred colleges several times, including: University of Michigan, Purdue University, and Case Western Reserve University |
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1927 |
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Eventually, graduated from Cornell University with her B.A. |
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1929 - 1935 |
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Worked as associate editor and staff photographer at Fortune magazine |
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1936 |
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Was hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine |
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1936 - 1940 |
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Worked as staff photographer at Life magazine |
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1939 - 1945 |
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Was the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II, and one of the first photographers to enter and document the death camps. |
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1948 |
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Received Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Rutgers University, Newark, NJ |
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1951 |
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Received Honorary Doctorate of Arts from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
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1952 - 1963 |
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Received an Achievement Award from US Camera, 1963
Suffering from Parkinson's Disease, was unable to take photography and concentrated on writing her autobiography, Portrait of Myself |
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1964 |
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Was awarded Honor Roll Award from American Society of Magazine Photographers |
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1971 |
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Died: Darien, Connecticut |
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Exhibitions |
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2011 |
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Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
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2010 |
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Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Bochum, Germany |
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2010 |
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“Fortune of Industry” –a retrospective look at how the photograph has shaped industry featuring select works by Margaret Bourke-White, GALLERY M, Denver, CO |
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2009 |
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The Malcolmson Collection, Presentation House Gallery , North Vancouver, Canada
Ring of Truth, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
Au féminin(Women Photographing Women), Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Sacred Sight, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY |
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2008 |
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Rethinking the Photographic Image, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
From the Printed Page: Photographs from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston(MFAH), Houston, TX
The Concerned Photographer, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Colleziona - Forma, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy |
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2007 |
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Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Icons of American Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Know War, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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2006 |
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Margaret Bourke-White - Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich, Germany(solo)
American Icons, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Facing Americ. Portraits of the People and the Land, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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2005 |
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Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Margaret Bourke-White: Discovered in Cleveland, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH(solo)
Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927-1936, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA(solo); traveling to: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME |
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2004 |
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Margaret Bourke-White, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC(solo)
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Great LIFE Photographers, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
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2003 |
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Working Nine to Five: Vintage Photographs of People at Work, Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
Histories of Photography, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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2002 |
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Margaret Bourke-White, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA(solo)
Vues d'architectures, Photographies XIX et XX, Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France |
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2001 |
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The Photograph and the American Dream - The Stephen White Collection II, 1840-19, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2000 |
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Steel & Real Estate: Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH(solo)
Picturing Business - The Photography of Fortune, International Center of Photography, New York, NY |
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1998 |
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Power and Paper: Margaret Bourke-White, Modernity and the Documentary Mode, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA(solo) |
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Literature |
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1998 |
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Callahan, Sean. Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer.Bulfinch: New York |
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1986 |
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Goldberg, Vicki. Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography |
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1983 |
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Silverman, Jonathon.The Life of Magaret Bourke-White |
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1963 |
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Bourke-White, Magaret. The Portrait of Myself. Simon & Schuster: New York |
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