Twenty Parachutes

Margaret Bourke-White: Twenty Parachutes

Margaret Bourke-White: Twenty Parachutes

Few careers with a camera have been narrated and celebrated as that of Bourke-White; for as legendary as her pictures were, so was the life and name she made for herself with them. Her success was a public fairy tale and a private labor: hard work, showmanship, and compromise intensified by historically high expectations – especially those she had for…