Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-Whitewas an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She died of Parkinson's disease about eighteen years after she developed her first symptoms...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 June 1904
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Margaret Bourke-White quotes about
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.
I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.
I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.
Work to me is a sacred thing.