The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
- Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself
Margaret Bourke-White was a photojournalist who achieved fame in a predominantly male environment. Working at the heart of major historical events, she produced some of the most memorable images of the 20th century, some of which would later become iconic. Bourke-White was a pioneering photojournalist whose insightful pictures of 1930s Russia, German industry, and the impact of the Depression and drought in the American midwest established her reputation. She took some of the first photographs inside German concentration camps at Erla and Buchenwald following the end of World War II and captured the last pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, in India.
