biography
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Bourke-White, Margaret
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originally Margaret White
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pronunciation:
[berk]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1906–71)
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| biography:
| Photo-journalist, born in New York City, USA. She studied at Columbia University, and started as an industrial and architectural photographer. She became a staff photographer and associate editor on Life magazine when it started publication in 1936. She covered World War 2 for Life, and was the first woman photographer to be attached to the US armed forces, producing reports of the siege of Moscow (1941) and the opening of the concentration camps in 1944. She was also an official UN war correspondent during the Korean War. |
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