Approaching Storm, Hartman, Colorado
1954 · Gelatin silver print
Image/paper: 18.3 × 23.9 cm (7 1/4 × 9 7/16 in.); Mount: 40.6 × 33 cm (16 × 13 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Margaret Bourke-White
American, 1904–1971
Joseph and Minnie White House
Mixed Media
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20
Institutional Exhibitions
94
Works in Collection
101
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11
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Reinstallation of the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Public Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
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Photographs of Women
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
About
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Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and photojournalist whose large-format industrial and architectural photographs established the grammar of modern documentary practice. Working primarily in black and white, she developed a distinctive approach to industrial subjects, capturing steel mills, dams, and factories with formal precision and dramatic lighting that elevated utilitarian structures to monumental status. Her work appeared in Fortune and Life magazines, where she pioneered the photo essay as a narrative form. She also documented the human toll of war and social upheaval, including the partition of India and the liberation of concentration camps. Her technical mastery and editorial vision fundamentally shaped twentieth-century photojournalism.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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