Article: Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971).(Looking and Learning)(Biography)

About the Artist

Margaret Bourke-White is best known for her photojournalism and commercial photography. Her photograph of the George Washington Bridge published in Fortune magazine in 1933, explores the modern concept of the machine-age aesthetic, celebrating the beauty in function.

Margaret Bourke-White studied photography at the Clarence White School while attending Columbia University. She also attended the University of Michigan, Purdue, and Western Reserve University before graduating from Cornell University. It was at Cornell that she began to support herself as a photographer.

After graduating from Cornell University in 1927, ...

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