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Arts > Photo > USA > Margaret Bourke-White 1904-1971
Segregation
Location: Greenville, SC, US
Date taken: 1956
Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/55a90f1ba69dc00b.html - broken link
A convoy of Muslims passed by the remains of an earlier caravan, both human and cattle.
[ Anglonautes > Background: India partition ]
Margaret Bourke-White The Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock
India’s Partition: A History in Photos NYT Published Aug. 14, 2022 Updated Aug. 16, 2022, 5:07 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/
Contrasts between the American image of plenty and the needs of many citizens have become more glaring in times of crisis.
Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White/ Time Life Pictures/Getty Images [ 1937 ]
Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis The coronavirus pandemic has shown how close to the edge many Americans were living, with pay and benefits eroding even as corporate profits surged. NYT April 16, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/
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First published in Life Magazine’s February 1937 issue, World’s Highest Standard of Living became instantly recognizable to many Americans during the Great Depression for its starkly ironic juxtaposition of an idealized America alongside the grimmer aspects of everyday reality.
Often thought to be an unemployment line, the photo was actually taken in Louisville after the flooding of the Ohio River, which killed almost 400 people and displaced about a million more across four states.
https://www.artic.edu/articles/467/
Leipzig Suicides
Leipzig City Council deputy mayor Dr. Lisso, member of Nazi party since 1932, lying dead while seated at his Town Hall desk, a suicide from cyanide, along with his wife and daughter, as American soldiers enter the city at the end of WWII.
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Date taken: April 13, 1945
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/ff2abbf02ea34e63.html - broken link
Margaret Bourke-White 1904-1971
Margaret Bourke-White was one of the most famous photojournalists of the 20th century.
A Bourke-White picture made the cover of the very first issue of Life magazine.
She was one of four staff photographers on the first masthead, the only woman on staff, and invented the photo essay for the magazine. http://www.npr.org/2003/02/26/1175402/bourke-white-s-photography-of-design
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2013/jan/30/
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/11/04/
https://www.npr.org/2003/02/26/
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/03/
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