Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971)
Autor/a de You Have Seen Their Faces
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Obres de Margaret Bourke-White
"Dear fatherland, rest quietly"; a report on the collapse of Hitler's "Thousand years." (1946) 27 exemplars
Halfway to freedom;: A report on the new India in the words and photographs of Margaret Bourke-White (1949) 20 exemplars
Bourke-White 5 exemplars
Obres associades
Written by Herself, Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women (1992) — Col·laborador — 426 exemplars
The Best-Loved Dog Stories of Albert Payson Terhune (1937) — Il·lustrador, algunes edicions — 37 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1904-06-14
- Data de defunció
- 1971-10-27
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Stamford, Connecticut, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA
Darien, Connecticut, USA - Educació
- Cornell University
- Professions
- photographer
- Relacions
- Caldwell, Erskine (husband|divorced)
- Organitzacions
- Fortune
Life
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 17
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 451
- Popularitat
- #54,392
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 28
- Llengües
- 2
- Preferit
- 1
I found Margaret Bourke-White to be as good a writer as she is a photographer. Her wording was clear, her organization logical, her style not pompous (which one often doesn't expect coming from famous people).
What I found most impressive about Miss Bourke-White was her great courage. She was never afraid (or never showed it) in dangerous situations. And she was in plenty of those....bombing raids, a sinking ship, the Italian front in World War II, deep in gold mines, and in the midst of Korean guerrilla warfare. And yet, throughout these episodes, she did not call attention to her lack of fear. Only an explanation for it was given in the first chapter.
Another aspect that amazed me was that she was able to do all the things she did. That's surprising, considering she's a she, and this was long before the women's liberation movement!
Also interesting were the three stages Margaret Bourke-White seemed to go through in her photographic career, stages I imagine most serious photographers go through. She began by taking pictures of what she liked best....dramatic industrial scenes in her case. Later, after beginning to work for the industrial magazine Fortune, she found beautiful pictures weren't enough. In her words, "Working for the integrated whole require[s] a much wider conception....pictures could be beautiful, but must tell facts, too....the idea of searching to record the 'unseen half' [is] an invaluable habit for a photographer to form" (page 70).
Then, after an assignment to photograph the situation in the Dust Bowl, she learned something else:
"I think this was the beginning of my awareness of people in a human, sympathetic sense as subjects for the camera and photographed against a wider canvas than I had perceived before. During the rapturous period when I was discovering the beauty of industrial shapes, people were only incidental to me, and in retrospect I believe I had not much feeling for them in my earlier work. But suddenly it was the people who counted.(page 110)....a man is more than a figure to put into the background of a photograph for scale...I was learning that to understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is. The people and the forces which shape them: each holds the key to the other. These are relationships that can be studied and photographed" (pages 134 and 136).
I feel that was the most valuable point in the book, a lesson which I will remember.… (més)