Web Work 6 Margaret Bourke White

Margaret Bourke White was an American photographer who made many break throughs in photography for women.  She was the first woman to be a war correspondent, first woman to work in combat zones, first person to be permitted to photograph the Soviet industry and the first woman to photograph for Life magazine, having her picture on the cover.  

She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in 1927 and moved to Cleveland Ohio and started her commercial photography.  She started photographing the production of steel but got lots of criticism for being a woman in a steel factory.  They said her and her camera were to delicate in be in the factory.  But she proved them wrong when she used magnesium flares to light up the scenes she photographed and took some of the best steel industry photographs ever taken.

Also in 1941 she was the only foreign photographer to be in Moscow when Germany invaded it.  She was the first woman to work in the war field as a photographer.