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Margaret Bourke-White

1904 - 1971

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Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, representing corporate clients and highlighting the success of industrial capitalism with black and white images of steel factories and skyscrapers. In 1930, she became the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of the Soviet Union. In 1933, NBC commissioned her to create a monumental photo mural about radio for its rotunda at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, then considered the largest photo mural in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Bourke-White is the 29th most popular journalist (up from 35th in 2019), the 2,873rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,790th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Margaret Bourke-White ranks 29 out of 196. Before her are Steve McCurry, Endre Ady, Marcel Bezençon, Mauricio Funes, Jeremy Clarkson, and Charles Dow. After her are François Mignet, Christopher Hitchens, Kevin Carter, Edgar Snow, Harriet Quimby, and Walker Evans.

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Among people born in 1904, Margaret Bourke-White ranks 93. Before her are Hans Hartung, Shunryū Suzuki, Walther Hewel, Oskar R. Lange, Anna Mahler, and Valery Chkalov. After her are Nikolai Berzarin, Heinrich von Brentano, Mihai Antonescu, Heinz Jost, Christopher Isherwood, and Deng Yingchao. Among people deceased in 1971, Margaret Bourke-White ranks 67. Before her are Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Reinhold Niebuhr, Shunryū Suzuki, T. V. Soong, Paul Lukas, and Viktor Patsayev. After her are Gene Vincent, Nora Stanton Barney, Hermann Ehrhardt, John W. Campbell, Dita Parlo, and Pedro Rodríguez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Bourke-White ranks 2,873 out of 20,380. Before her are Perry Como (1912), Joey DeMaio (1954), Jennifer Lawrence (1990), Lloyd Austin (1953), Billy Dee Williams (1937), and Ray Harryhausen (1920). After her are Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914), William A. Wheeler (1819), Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Gene Vincent (1935), Gordon Scott (1926), and Julia Ann (1969).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Margaret Bourke-White ranks 8. Before her are Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Dorothea Lange (1895), John Reed (1887), W. Eugene Smith (1918), Steve McCurry (1950), and Charles Dow (1851). After her are Edgar Snow (1905), Harriet Quimby (1875), Walker Evans (1903), Diana Nyad (1949), Joe Rosenthal (1911), and James Foley (1973).

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