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Bourke-White, Margaret
(1904-1971)Aerial Landscapes

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Aerial landscapes. 1930s. 5 gelatin silver prints. Each 10,3 x 7,8 cm or reverse. With the photographer’s “A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph” stamp, as well as numbered in pencil on the verso.

These small-format prints by Margaret Bourke-White belong to a significant phase of her work in the 1930s, when she pioneered aerial photography as a modern visual language. Shot from aircraft, they transform natural landscapes into graphic compositions of light, shadow, and texture, emphasizing abstraction over topographical description. Rather than simple records, these images reflect her broader modernist approach, using elevated viewpoints to reveal underlying structures and patterns, and situating her among the earliest photographers to fully exploit the camera’s ability to reimagine the world from above.