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Her sense of design and form was and still is incredible!
Finally, a book of photographs by Margaret Bourke-White
As documentary images they are as good as any I have seen

Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer
Sean Callahan
Manufacturer: Bulfinch
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Excellent.......2002-07-22

I did not buy this book because MBW was an inspirational female or other, but because her photos are simply superb. They capture a feeling, a time and space with a clarity that is both sparse and yet detailed. This is a book to savour and reflect on.

Her sense of design and form was and still is incredible!.......1999-03-04

This book illustrates why Margaret Bourke-White should be recognized as one of the 20th century's top photographers. Her ability to capture a moment during war and destruction or an enternity in marble and stone, is awe inspiring. She was not limited by her feminity. She moved easily into the world of machines and factories, capturing molten metal and shiny blades. Again and again, I return to the book and study all aspects of her photographs. The depth of field, the rhythm, the harmony and the life seen in all her photos takes my breath away. Within a few days of purchasing the book, I had the joy of visiting the National Art Gallery of Canada in Ottawa where there are two Margaret Bourke-White photos in their collection. The soft creamy paper used in these pictures counters the hard metal of the image itself. These are the third and fourth Margaret Bourke-White's I have had the pleasure to see in person. The other two was a copy of the original cover for LIFE magazine and a single rose bud. Both of these photos are owned by Margaret Bourke-White's sorority and are featured in their archival collection. The photographic reproductions in this book, although lacking the soft creams of the Art Gallery's copies, do capture the integrity of her photos. I will treasure this book.

Finally, a book of photographs by Margaret Bourke-White.......1998-10-29

For several years, I would stop in the photography section of whatever bookstore I was in to see if there were any monographs about Margaret Bourke-White's photography. Alas, there were none. Margaret Bourke-White was a remarkable photo-journalist who has given us many remarkable and lasting images of industry, war and society. She joined Life magazine at its founding and died at the time of the magazine's demise in 1972.

This book provides a comprehensive look at her work decade by decade with the best of her best work included with an introduction to each section by Sean Callahan. The appearance of this book is long overdue. A perfect companion to this volume is the biography by Vicki Goldberg.

As documentary images they are as good as any I have seen.......1998-09-22

This large format hard-backed book is a magnificent tribute to one of the world's most renowned women photographers. Published by Pavilion, this landmark retrospective (with a UK street price of 40 pounds) contains 160 pages of some of her most remarkable monochrome images, together with some rarely seen work from her personal archives.

Reproduction is quite literally superb, with the pictures jumping from the page; most images are placed one to a page while some spread the gutter. Those who aspire to create the very best black and white prints should study Bourke-White's work carefully. As fine art photographs they would hang well in any gallery. As documentary images they are as good as any I have seen.

From the 1920s to the 1950s Bourke-White fearlessly recorded objects, people and events that shaped history. First famed as an industrial photographer, she then became on the first staff photographers at Life magazine.

This book is the most complete collection of her work to date and includes photographs from her early days. Images of industrialised America, through to war-torn Korea and the Nazi bombing of Moscow, all show life as it really was, and photographed in such an accomplished way, that the reader can't help but be drawn into them as though it was yesterday.

Few photo books impress me as much as this one. A worthy addition to anyone's collection.

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Great book for young adolescents
Margaret, a pioneering female

Margaret Bourke White
Susan Goldman Rubin
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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An inspiring biography of one of the most successful photojournalists of the 20th century, this life of Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) is exactly the type of book teachers and parents of adolescent girls are looking for. It would be a mistake to treat this as a book for girls only, however, when so many great men--Bourke-White's father, her second husband, several darkroom technicians, and even General Jimmy Doolittle, commander of the 12th Air Force in World War II--figure prominently in it as mentors, teachers, colleagues, and friends. Author Susan Goldman Rubin gracefully deals with sensitive material such as the photographer's shame at discovering that her father was Jewish. And she does a remarkable job of choosing appropriate pictures. As the chief photographer for Life magazine, Bourke-White shot many hugely important but often harsh subjects. Rubin deftly edits these images so that famous photos like the haunting Living Dead of Buchenwald, April, 1945 are here, but not such profoundly disturbing ones as Bourke-White's shot of bony corpses stacked for burning. The author underscores the photographer's extraordinary self-confidence as a young woman of huge ambitions and--beginning with Bourke-White's initial flirtation with the soft-focus style of Edward Steichen--delineates the growing power and clarity of her mature documentary style. Bourke-White's life-long interest in science--she kept jars of multilegged fauna on her office bookshelves at Life--is fascinating, and the stories of her wartime adventures--in marooned life rafts, low-flying reconnaissance planes, and torpedoed ships--are frighteningly vivid.

The photographs themselves are ultimately given pride of place, in large duotone reproductions that do them ample justice. This book would be right for anyone over 10, and older readers might go on to Sean Callahan's Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer, which is more of a traditional monograph and includes those images that tell truths so painful that Bourke-White herself had great difficulty sorting their negatives. --Peggy Moorman

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Great book for young adolescents.......2001-12-30

First off, this is a KIDS book. Interested in Margaret Bourke-White's work I picked this up from the photography section of our local bookstore, but quickly found the simple declarative sentences absolutely maddening.

As a child's book I rate it 4 to 5 stars. Great photo selection and actually quite a lot of interesting information on Ms. Bourke-White's life. As an adult book maybe one star (and that one for the good selection of photos).

Margaret, a pioneering female.......2000-07-27

I didn't know who Margaret Bourke-White was until I received this book as a gift. I have always been interested in photography but never considered it as a career until I read this book. The photos that are in the book are very inspirational. Reading about her life and what she went through to make her dream come true was very interesting. I have had this book for two years and still enjoy looking through her photos.

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You Have Seen Their Faces
Erskine Caldwell , and Margaret Bourke-White
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Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography (Radcliffe Biography Series)

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They called it "Purple Heart Valley";: A combat chronicle of the war in Italy

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Early Margaret celebrated

Margaret Bourke-white: The Early Work, 1922-1930 (Pocket Paragon Series)
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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 traditional portraits of campus buildings and, almost by accident, her first "industrial" photograph, a Duchamp-like study of loudspeakers. After graduation she moved to Cleveland, where, trembling with fear and aesthetic excitement, she photographed the interior of the Otis Steel Mill, the trestles of the High Level Bridge, and the new Terminal Tower. It was these thrilling Cleveland photographs, made in 1928-30, that won her an audience with Luce, who sent her on to Fortune . . . and to fame.

The eighty photographs reproduced here have seldom been seen outside the archives of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the University of Syracuse Library. They will fascinate anyone interested in the life and work of Margaret Bourke-White and the early history of American photojournalism.

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Early Margaret celebrated.......2006-03-13

Margaret Bourke-White was a leading photojournalist whose work for Fortune, among others, celebrated the machine age and whose later work for Life featured more of an interest in humanitarian concerns. MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE: THE EARLY WORK, 1992-1930 provides a new gathering with a focus on her earliest work, when she was an amateur. Her first photos were still lifes and images more characteristic of her times rather than her talents: one can see the transitions to her personal style in the photos made from 1928-30, and it's also notable that the some eighty photos reproduced here have seldom been seen outside their archives. A 'must' for any in-depth art library.

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The Taste of War (Century Travellers)
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"Dear fatherland, rest quietly";: A report on the collapse of Hitler's "Thousand years."

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A Vivid Record of Germany at the End of WWII
spirit of the times

"Dear fatherland, rest quietly";: A report on the collapse of Hitler's "Thousand years."
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A Vivid Record of Germany at the End of WWII.......2006-10-30

I grew up in the Displaced Person camps set up by the Allies to save the lives of those who the Nazis condemned to slavery and death, and I have never read a more accurate description of what it was like in Germany at the end of the war.

I've read all three of Bourke-White's memoiristic photo-narratives of the war in Europe and this one is easily the best. Bourke-White does not hide her disgust with the Germans who supported Hitler's war and then rejected responsibility for what they helped bring to pass. I would be surprised if she could hide such feelings. She was one of the first civilians to go through Buchenwald after its liberation, and the things she saw and smelled and heard taught her something profound about the everyday evil that allowed places like Buchenwald to exist in Germany. That she can write as accurately and clearly as she does having experienced this is a testament to her considerable talent as a writer.

This book is not a history, and if you seek a historian's objectivity you will not find it. This book is rather something quite different. It is a personal narrative written by a sensitive human being who has experienced things most of us will never thankfully have to experience. What Bourke-White gives us is a unique record in pictures and words of what it was like in Germany as that place faced the whirlwind of two great armies. Bourke-White writes about the camps and the GIs and the DPs and the concentration camp survivors and those that didn't survive, and she writes about the Germans who stood by and imagined that the world Hitler envisioned was the ideal one and that it should exist for a 1000 years.

spirit of the times.......2006-06-21

This book came out in the immediate post-war period and is Life magazine photographer Bourke-White's comments to her photographs as she tours a destroyed Germany with Gen. Patton. Bourke-White, daughter of an Orthodox Jewish father, shows sleek Allied generals sitting triumphantly in Krupp's 'requisitioned' study (and mentions their looting), shows Buchenwald typhus victims (along with their healthy fellow detainees), the hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers herded by the victors into open fields (for weeks, without food, water, shelter, medical care, although she doesn't say so), and castigates the hapless population for having let it all happen. To her, the Berlin rubble women clearing the miles of ruins one bucket at a time work 'too slowly,' just about everyone is a [...] who deserves this hell, and even has a vicious tone for Germans having 'good teeth,' according to her because they had 'plundered' the rest of Europe. Well, prejudice, bias, slant and all that, this book is a partial photographic record of what the destroyed country was like in 1945. Her comments reflect no guilt for the destruction but instead she clamours for the people to 'accept their responsibility.' If this is your cup of tea, you might rate the book higher. Having been there at the same time and seeing much of the same things, I had a completely different reaction to the horrors and utter devastation inflicted on Germany.

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