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Margaret Bourke-White The Kremlin 1931 Sgd photo

Title: The Kremlin, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Author: Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971)
Description: 11½x19¼" gelatin silver print photograph, on original stiff card mount (17¾x25¾"), signed in pencil by Margaret Bourke-White on lower mount recto. Photographer's rubberstamp label and typed title label affixed on verso.Margaret Bourke-White, in 1930 became the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. She was hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine. She married novelist Erskine Caldwell and together they collaborated on You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), a book about conditions in the South during the Great Depression / Dust Bowl era. Bourke-White was the first female war correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II. In 1941, she traveled to the Soviet Union and was the only foreign photographer in Moscow when German forces invaded. Taking refuge in the U.S. Embassy, she famously captured the ensuing firestorms on camera.
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Date Published: [1931]