Artful Sidebar: Photographer Margaret Bourke-White

The photographer at work.   The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. ~ Margaret Bourke-White Few American pioneers of photography or photojournalism can lay claim to the panache or the professional legacy of the dauntless, daring Margaret Bourke-White ... particularly few women have a prayer of doing so. Many artists adventure, yet a scant handful participate in history. Over the wide-ranging course of her career, Margaret was in turn torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the Luftwaffe, stranded on a remote Arctic island, [...]