Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White
Bottles designed by John Vassos
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC


Margaret Bourke-White
Iron Puddler, Stalingrad
1930
gelatin silver print
Detroit Institute of Arts

Margaret Bourke-White
U.S.S. Airship Akron
1931
gelatin silver print
(custom frame constructed of "Duralumin")
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Margaret Bourke-White
Hugh Cooper
1931
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Margaret Bourke-White
Studio designed for Bourke-White by John Vassos
1932
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Margaret Bourke-White
Self Portrait
ca. 1933
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Margaret Bourke-White
Sierra Madres
1935
gelatin silver print
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Margaret Bourke-White
Boulder Dam under Construction
1935
gelatin silver print
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Margaret Bourke-White
Fort Peck Dam, Montana
(used for the inaugural cover of Life magazine)
1936
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Margaret Bourke-White
World's Highest Standard of Living
1937
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Margaret Bourke-White
Tulips in the Rudolph Wurlitzer Garden
ca. 1938
gelatin silver print
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Philippe Halsman
Margaret Bourke-White
1943
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Margaret Bourke-White
Vultures of Calcutta, India
1946
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Margaret Bourke-White
Industrial Landscape, Pittsburgh
1955
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Margaret Bourke-White
Industrial Landscape, Pittsburgh
1955
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Margaret Bourke-White
American Iron and Steel Works, Pittsburgh
ca. 1955-56
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Margaret Bourke-White
Industrial Landscape, Pittsburgh
1956
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

from Nux

I the poor nuttree, joyning to the way,
Offend not any: and yet every day
By idle travailers, that passe along
Each stone or cudgel at my pate is flong.
Theeves led to hanging oft are stond, they say,
When peoples furie brooks not lawes delay.
I nere offend, unlesse it seeme a crime
To yeeld my owner yeerely fruit in time. 

Though by the sunne I often scorched be
Thers none with watring that refresheth me.
But when my nut with ripenesse cleaves her hull,
Then comes the Pole and threats my crowne to pull. 
    My pulpe for second course men use to have,
A thriftie housewife doth my choice nuts save.
These are the tooles of boyes-play, Cockupall,
Cobnut, and Five holes trundling like a ball:
And Castle-nut, where one on three doth sit,
He winnes the fourth, that any one can hit:
Another downe a steepe set board doth throw,
And winnes by hitting any nut below.  

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Thomas Hoy (1682)