Great black and white photographers, PART 2.

Margaret Bourke-White was born June 14, 1904  in The Bronx, New York.She died August 27, 1971 in Connecticut. She went to several universities across the country. She was trying to get a degree in Herpetology (the study of reptiles). She went to Columbia University in New York, the University of Michigan, Purdue University in Indiana, Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and she received her degree in 1927 from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She has written several books called You Have Seen Their Faces, North of the Danube, Shooting the Russian War,They Called it "Purple Heart Valley, Halfway to Freedom; a report on the new India, Portrait of Myself,Dear Fatherland, rest quietly. Margaret Bourke-White started studding photography as a hobby. One of her biggest accomplishments was being the first photographer for Fortune magazine, in 1929-1930, She was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union.