Artist Index: Bourke-White, Margaret

Bourke-White, Margaret. Halfway to Freedom. A Report on the New India. 245 S. Mit 114 fotograf. Abb. von M. Bourke-White. 21 x 14,5 cm. OHalbleinen (etwas berieben) mit goldgepr. Deckel- und RTitel. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1949.
Erste Ausgabe. Titel von Margaret Bourke-White signiert. – Minimal gebräunt.

"DC Flying over Manhattan, NYC".
Gelatin silver print. 1939/printed 1996.
40,5 x 50,9 cm (image); 51 x 60,5 cm (paper).
Artist's blindstamp lower right in the margin, numbered 3/250 in ink lower left; Life Gallery of Photo Estate stamp, copyrighted, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

Probably best-known for her sympathetic imagery of dust-bowl victims and Depression era America, in contrast, the image offered here can be seen as a celebration of American engineering and modernity.
Framed.

Literatur: Sean Callahan (ed.). The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White. New York 1972.