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Article: The Industrial revelations of Margaret Bourke-White.(Photojournalism)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Margaret Bourke-White (1904-71) first gained recognition as an industrial photographer based in Cleveland. "I stood on the deck to watch the city come into view," she said of her Lake Erie boat trip to the Ohio city. "As the skyline took form in the morning mist, I felt I was coming to my promised land ... columns of machinery gaining height as we drew toward the pier, derricks swinging like living creatures. Deep inside, I knew these were my subjects."
During her unique career, Bourke-White was stranded in the Arctic, strafed by the German Luftwaffe, torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea, bombarded in Moscow, and pulled from Chesapeake ...