Biography Of Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White was a well known photographer and was known for proving that women could do the same thing as men in the field of photography. She photographed Gandhi minutes before his assassination, covered the war that followed the partition of India, and was with U.S. troops when they liberated Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp. She was the iconic photographer that caught everyone by surprise. Margaret defied what everyone thought that a woman was capable of doing in the world of photography and made them have second thoughts about if men were really better than women in the field of photography.

“When she began courting corporations, she was one of the few women who were actively competing in a man’s world and a lot of the men photographers were very jealous of her.” This means that Margaret wasn't scared of men doing a better job than her or being judged for trying to …show more content…
This also meant that men did not respect Margaret for what she was good at. This was just another way that Margaret defied what people thought that men were better at women at everything but Margaret prove this is wrong by her amazing photographs and that men aren't dominate in the field of photography.

To conclude, Margaret Bourke-White was a iconic photographer that caught everyone by surprise by the amazing photographs she took. First, she was one of the few women that were challenging men in a so called man’s world. Second she had major achievements like was the first woman war correspondent and was the first western journalist allowed access into the Soviet Union. Margaret defied what everyone thought that a woman was capable of doing in the world of photography and made them have second thoughts about if men were really better than women in the field of