Margaret Bourke-White

was born in the Bronx on June 14, 1904. Margaret developed an interest in photography early in life. When she went to Columbia University she went in to study herpetology, however she worked briefly with Clarence White which brought her back to studying photography. After changing universities many times she eventually graduated from Cornell University in 1927. She established a commercial photography studio in Cleveland Ohio and concentrated on architectural and industrial photography. She worked well with people and was a perfectionist in her compositions. Throughout her career she had many important milestones as a photographer including the first foreign photographer permitted to take photographs in the soviet Union. The first female war photojournalist. Her images are modernism and timeless and she is one of the great photographers of the twentieth-century.