"...no single photojournalist’s portfolio has ever surpassed hers. No one, to put it bluntly, was ever better." http://time.com/3735284/great-lady-with-a-camera-margaret-bourke-white-american-original/ Born June 14, 1904 in the Bronx, NY, to Joseph White and Minnie Bourke. Her father was a naturalist, engineer and inventor; her mother, a resourceful homemaker. She learned from her father perfection; from her mother, the unabashed desire for self-improvement. Married in 1924 to Everett Chapman. Divorced in 1926, she escaped to the security of Cornell University to complete her education and find...and define...herself as the Margaret Bourke-White the world came to know through her pioneering photojournalism. She first gained recognition as an industrial photographer based in Cleveland, OH. Arriving in the Lake Erie city by boat in 1927 she said, "I stood on the deck to watch the city come into view. 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." Her pioneering photographs of steel mill interiors came to the attention of Henry Luce. He brought her to New York to work on Fortune, a magazine drenched in the romance of industry. Then as a photojournalist she emphasized the human side of the news as seen in the pages of LIFE, another Henry Luce production. As a founding mother of LIFE (she shot the first cover ), she became a world-famous symbol of swashbuckling photography. And that she did it in a male world made her success even more spectacular. ...Aggressive and relentless in pursuit of pictures, Bourke-White had the knack of being at the right place at the right time. For example, she interviewed and photographed Mohandas K. Gandhi a few hours before his assassination in India.... Continued at http://www.gallerym.com/pages/margaret-bourke-white-biography undefined

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