Margaret Bourke-White. Boy with a hammer, Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union 1931.
In the male-dominated world of early twentieth-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Fearlessly, she covered the work of medical teams behind the front line. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops. This exhibition comprises over 180 original vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s.
Margaret Bourke-White - Moments in History
August 19 - October 19, 2014
Syracuse University Art Galleries