Compiled by: Hazel Thompson
Margaret Bouke White used unique techniques in her photography that were very uncommon for the time period.
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The scenes that Margaret chose to photograph were not pleasant, upbeat, or feel good. Many times they addressed political or social issue (Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), 1999).
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She featured very unusual subjects in her photos. Some of her common subjects include the development of machinery, WWII, Holocaust victims, Russian workers, and postwar Germany, instead of smiling families, and fancy clothes (Loughery, 1989).
Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971) 1937 Portrait of Sharecropper and Wife
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Margaret used realism as the style for all her photographs. This means that they are depicted exactly as they appear in real life without alteration, or faulty representation (Vials, 2006).
She also shot most of her photos in black and white because she felt it better brought out the serious emotion within the picture (Oden, 2004).
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Vials, C. (2006). The Popular Front in the American Century: Life Magazine, Margaret Bourke-White, and Consumer Realsim, 1936-1941. (T. O. University, Producer) Retrieved March 26, 2014, from American Periodicals: muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_periodicals/v016/16.1vials.htm