Via The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) Exposure Newsletter
February 19, 2026
Margaret Bourke-White/©Life Picture Collection
Courtesy of Monroe Gallery
Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneer in many ways: a founding member of LIFE magazine, she was also the publication’s first female photographer, and she photographed the magazine’s first cover in 1936 (of the massive Fort Peck Dam in Fort Peck, Montana). A globe-trotting photojournalist (who was played in films by both Candace Bergen and Farrah Fawcett), she became a successful photographer in many male-dominated areas of the field, including industrial photography. When she was all of 23 years old, she photographed the Otis Steel Mill in Cleveland, where she also photographed the city’s famous Terminal Tower. Her 1937 landmark book, You Have Seen Their Faces, with text by her then-husband Erskine Caldwell, documented the lives of shareholders and tenant farmers in the deep south with empathy and grace. After embedding with the Air Force during World War II, she was one of the first people to photograph the devastation of the concentration camps, and her photographs of Gandhi following the partition of India were some of the last photographs ever taken of him before he was assassinated in 1948. A selection of this remarkable body of work is on view through April 26 at Santa Fe’s Monroe Gallery of Photography.
-Jean Dykstra
-Jean Dykstra
Margaret Bourke-White/©Life Picture Collection
Courtesy of Monroe Gallery
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