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BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET (1904-71). Photograph signed ("Margaret Bourke-White"), n.d., n.p. [circa 1955]. 252 x 203 mm. (9 15/16 x 8 in.) including margins, a few letters smudged. A shoulder-length portrait, signed on the upper portion of the image.
"Photojournalist, pioneer of the photoessay (a Bourke-White image was on the first cover of Life), photographer of Stalin, Gandhi, and the survivors of Buchenwald. Still handsome at the time of this photo, she was forced to cut short her career because of Parkinson's disease, whose inroads are apparent in the signature here"--W.M.
"Photojournalist, pioneer of the photoessay (a Bourke-White image was on the first cover of Life), photographer of Stalin, Gandhi, and the survivors of Buchenwald. Still handsome at the time of this photo, she was forced to cut short her career because of Parkinson's disease, whose inroads are apparent in the signature here"--W.M.