Margaret Bourke White

Margaret Bourke White was a part of a wealthy and educated family. She was raised by her father in New York City. She studied amphibians and reptiles and later began her career in photography. She graduated from Cornell and opened a studio in Cleveland where she sold pictures to students on campus. She was working for different magazines and was given a variety of projects. She was assigned a project on the drought and saw how people suffered. She was famous for being able to capture that in her art. White was the first female war corespondent and one of the first female photographers for Life magazine. She photographed World War II and survived a torpedo attack. Before she past, she wrote her famous autobiography.