page_title: Margaret Bourke-White
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret Bourke-White
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Margaret Bourke-White as a subject of the television program Person to Person.
context_page_description: Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviet's five-year plan, the first American female war photojournalist, and having one of her photographs on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. She died of Parkinson's disease about eighteen years after developing symptoms.
context_section_description: Margaret Bourke-White (/ˈbɜːrk/; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviet's five-year plan, the first American female war photojournalist, and having one of her photographs (the construction of Fort Peck Dam) on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. She died of Parkinson's disease about eighteen years after developing symptoms.
caption: Bourke-White interviewed on Person to Person, 1955
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