Biography of Margaret Bourke-White
...nd amphibians, in Columbia University and this is when she developed that interest for photography which later would be her career in life. In 1925, when Bourke-White was about 19 or 20 years old, she got married to a man named Everett Chapman, but unfortunately got divorced one year later. Bourke-White went to several colleges including University of Michigan, Purdue University in Indiana, and Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, but finally graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in the year 1927. A year later, 1928, Bourke-White moved to Cleveland, Ohio where she worked as an industrial photographer at the Otis Steel Company. In 1929, she worked for Fortune Magazine as an associate editor. Bourke-White became the first western photographer to enter the Soviet Union in 1930. Shortly afterwards, she became the first woman ever to be hired as a female photojournalist for Life magazine by Henry Luce. One of the best photographs that Bourke-White took was of the Fort Peck Dam which was featured on the cover of the November 23, 19...