DETAILS
- Artist
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Print: 55.6 × 73.5 cm (21 15/16 × 28 15/16 in.); frame: 68 × 85.8 × 6.9 cm (26 13/16 × 33 13/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Photography and Media
- Culture
- New York City
- Credit line
- Gift of Boardroom, Inc.
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THE ARTIST
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering American photojournalist, the first female staff photographer for Life magazine, known for capturing industrial might, the human toll of the Great Depression, and the horrors of WWII.
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