The first issue of Life Magazine is published on September 23. The first edition of Life as a weekly news magazine was released on this day in 1936. Margaret Bourke-photograph White's of the Fort Peck Dam graced the cover. The photograph was taken by Bourke's husband, Alfred Eisenstadt, who was an American photographer based in London. Bourke was one of the first female photographers to work for a major newspaper when she joined the staff of the New York Times in 1923. In 1926, she went to France where she worked for several months as a photojournalist for Le Petit Parisien before returning to the United States. In 1933, she founded her own photographic agency which specialized in photographing natural disasters and other breaking news events. In 1936, she was hired by Life to take photographs for their news stories and feature articles. She died in 1958 at the age of 61 years old. Alfred Eisenstadt was an Austrian photographer who moved to London where he set up his own photography studio. He met Margaret Bourke while working on a project for the International Labor Organization in France. They married in 1929 and had two children together. After marrying Bourke, he changed his name to Alfred Eisenstadt to avoid confusion with another famous photographer named Alfred Eisenstein. Life was started by Henry Luce who was also the founder of Time Magazine.