Margaret Bourke-White posing for a photo, 1943. One of LIFE magazine’s four original staff photographers, click below for more about her groundbreaking work! 📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection LIFEMagazine MargaretBourkeWhite Photographer
Margaret Bourke-White, 27, stood on the scaffolding enclosing the under-construction Chrysler Building in New York, 1931.At the risk of belaboring the obvious, we’ll state at the outset that one photo gallery can not, and will not, begin to encompass Margaret Bourke-White’s achievements as a LIFE photographer, a journalist and a witness to the glories and barbarity of the 20th century.
She was known to friends and co-workers simply as “Maggie.” And after she routinely returned alive and well, with powerful photographs, from mortally dangerous assignments—riding along on bombing runs over Nazi Germany, getting stranded in the Arctic, surviving a helicopter crash in Chesapeake Bay—she was given a new surname by her LIFE colleagues: “Maggie the Indestructible.”
Here, LIFE.com presents some of her most recognizable photos, all of which appeared in an article in the June 28, 1963, issue of LIFE titled, “Great Lady With a Camera” a celebration of the photographer that the magazine published in conjunction with the release of Bourke-White’s autobiography,“Miss Bourke-White,” LIFE told its readers, “for 25 years a member of LIFE’s staff, has put her career into an autobiography. . . .
In the spring of 1929, I received a telegram from a man I had never met: HAVE JUST SEEN YOUR [OHIO STEEL MILL] PHOTOGRAPHS. CAN YOU COME TO NEW YORK WITHIN WEEK AT OUR EXPENSE. It was signed: HENRY R. LUCE and under his name: TIME, THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE. I very nearly did not go. For two days the telegram lay unanswered, and then the yeast of New York began to work.
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