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Ronald E. Ostman, Harry Littell, Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-white: The Early Work, 1922-1930 (Pocket Paragon Series)
by David R Godine (Paperback)

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was one of the leading photojournalists of her time, a mainstay of the Luce empire whose signature work for Fortune celebrated the machine age and whose later work for Life featured the human face and a "progressive" humanitarian sensibility. Many of her photo essays are classics; indeed those on the Louisville Flood and its victims, on the liberation of the Nazi death camps, and on the poverty of India and Pakistan are now part of the iconography of the twentieth century. In this brief collection of her earliest work, two art historians present the "unknown" Bourke-White, the young amateur aged eighteen to twenty-six. Her first photographs, created in 1921 under the tutelage of Columbia University's Clarence H. White, were impeccably designed soft-edged still lifes, "painterly" images characteristic of the period but not of the artist. Bourke-White took this technique to college - to the University of Michigan and to Cornell - and there made ...

Miles Orvell
The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by The University of North Carolina Press (Paperback)

This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. A witty essay on the significance of junk in the 1930s concludes the book.

Vicki Goldberg
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography
by Harpercollins (Hardcover)

Margaret Bourke-White
The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White
by Little Brown & Company (Paperback)

Margaret Bourke-White
Portrait of Myself
by Simon & Schuster (Hardcover)

Stephen Bennett Phillips
Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927-1936
by Rizzoli International Publications (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2003-03-05)

Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer
by Bulfinch (Hardcover)

Margaret Bourke-White
Power and Paper Margaret Bourke-White: Modernity & the Documentary Mode
by Boston University Art Gallery (Paperback)

Margaret Bourke-White
Steel & real estate: Margaret Bourke-White and corporate culture in Cleveland, 1927-1929 ; an exhibition organized by the College of Wooster Art Museum ... 2000 ; guest curator Geraldine Wojno Kiefer
by College of Wooster Art Museum (Unknown Binding)

Jonathan Silverman
For the World to See: 2 (A Studio book)
by Studio (Hardcover)

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