Margaret Bourke-White was a landmark American photojournalist. Remembered as the first female war correspondent and the first foreign photographer permitted to document Soviet industry, she captured countless iconic images of 20th-century life, conflict, and the politicians at its center. “Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject,” she once reflected. Born Margaret White on June 14, 1904 in Bronx, NY, she attended several universities in her pursuit of a degree in herpetology. Although Bourke-White did not pursue a degree in photography in college, her father introduced her to the medium as a young woman. She turned her hobby into a career by opening...