Margaret+Bourke-White



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20th Century **
 * Margaret Bourke-White **
 * By: Isabelle **
 * Margaret Bourke-White showed people that when you take pictures of things that other people would never think of, it could be cool and interesting. **
 * Margaret Bourke-White was born June 14, 1904, in New York City. She was born before radio, television, automobiles, and airplanes. Also, they had no picture magazines only newspapers. When Margaret was a little girl she wanted to be a herpetologist and travel to the jungle. Most women were teachers or secretaries but Margaret didn’t want to be any of those. When Margaret Bourke-White was in high school she was involved in the debate club, senior play, editor of year book, and president of the dramatic club. Margaret Bourke-White died in 1971 at the Stamford Hospital when she was 67 years old. **
 * Margaret Bourke-White liked to take tons of pictures, she liked to take motion pictures, pictures of war, nature and animals and she took pictures during the Dust Bowl. She used a soft-focus technique. **
 * She wanted to take pictures of a building that was on fire but the firemen thought she might faint from the heat. Firemen could not understand what she could find in dark buildings full of sooty and shuddering machines. Margaret Bourke-White was not afraid of heat, she kept fighting till they let her take pictures. When Margaret Bourke-White brought back the pictures everybody was amazed with them. She did not think machines were ugly hunks of metal. Margaret Bourke-White found beauty where no one else did, like a burst of steam, chugging trains, and rushing flows of fiery hot metal. **
 * When Margaret Bourke-White was 23 years old she started her life’s work. But when she was little she also liked to take pictures. She started real photography in college. When Margaret Bourke-White was a girl she wanted excitement and was eager to learn new things. When her dad died she went back to college and started photography because that’s what her dad liked to do and she needed to make money. After college Margaret Bourke-White kept working on photography and became famous. **
 * When Margaret Bourke-White took pictures of things that other people would never think of, she changed other photographers mind about machines and fires and other things! **

** Works Cited ** **19** **May 2009 .**
 * Welch, Catherine A. __Margaret Bourke-White__. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1997. **
 * Welch, Catherine A. __Margaret Bourke-White racing with a dream__. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1998. **
 * http://www.benjaminharlow.com/alloftheabove/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/mbw_chryslerbld.jpg **