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American photographer and documentary photographer.(–)

For other people named Margaret White, see Margaret White.

Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, – August 27, ) was an American photographer and documentary photographer.^[1] She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan,^[2] was the first American female war photojournalist, and took the photograph (of the construction of Fort Peck Dam) that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.^[3][4][5]

Early life

Margaret Bourke-White,^[6] born Margaret White^[7] in the Bronx, New York,^[8] was the daughter of Joseph White, a non-practicing Jew whose father came from Poland, and Minnie Bourke, who was of Irish Catholic descent.^[9] She grew up in Middlesex, New Jersey (the Joseph and Minnie White House in Middlesex), and graduated fro