Margaret Bourke-White Biography.

Margaret Bourke-White was born June 14, 1904 in The Bronx, New York. Margaret father was of Polish-Jewish and her mother was of Irish-English. Margaret was married twice; once to Everett Champman when she was 18; and to Eskine Caldwell, the writer, in 1939, after they had worked together. They divorced in 1942. She was a forerunner in the newly emerging field of photojournalism, and was the first female to be hired as such.
Margaret began to study photography as a very young woman. She developed the styles and techniques she needed for many formats on her own. Margaret Bourke-White is a woman of many firsts. She was a forerunner in the newly emerging field of photojournalism, and was the first female to be hired as such. She was the first photographer for Fortune magazine, in 1929. In 1930, she was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union.
She died August 27, 1971, in Connecticut.