
- 323 pages
- English
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Portrait of Myself
About this book
This is the story of the internationally acclaimed American woman Margaret Bourke-White, who for over thirty years made photographic history: as the first photographer to see the artistic and storytelling possibilities in American industry, as the first to write social criticism with a lens, and as the most distinguished and venturesome foreign correspondent-with-a-camera to report wars, politics and social and political revolution on three continents.In this poignant autobiography, Bourke-White details her fight against Parkinson's disease, and recounts tales of her struggles to master her art and craft, of photographing Stalin, Gandhi and many other notables, of being torpedoed off North Africa while reporting World War II, of flying combat missions, of photographing the dread murder camps of Nazi Germany, of touring Tobacco Road to produce the book You Have Seen Their Faces with Erskine Caldwell (whom she later married), of adventuresâand wonderful picture-takingâin the mines of South Africa, in the frozen North, in war-torn Korea.Illustrated throughout with over 70 of Margaret Bourke-White's fine photographs, this is the great life story of a great American, greatly yet modestly told.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PUBLISHERâS NOTE
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER I-MY INVITATION INTO THE WORLD
- CHAPTER II-A BROKEN RING AND A CRACKED LENS
- CHAPTER III-A BORROWED CAMERA AND A BAG OF PEANUTS
- CHAPTER IV-THE ENCHANTED STEEL MILLS
- CHAPTER V-FORTUNE BECKONS
- CHAPTER VI-SKYSCRAPERS AND ADVERTISING
- CHAPTER VII-THE COUNTRY OF THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
- CHAPTER VIII-MOTHER
- CHAPTER IX-ASSIGNMENT TO THE DUST BOWL
- CHAPTER X-THE ROCKY ROAD TO TOBACCO ROAD
- CHAPTER XI-âYOU HAVE SEEN THEIR FACESâ
- CHAPTER XII-LIFE BEGINS
- CHAPTER XIII-HIS EXCELLENCY AND THE BUTTERFLIES
- CHAPTER XIV-LOVE IN RENO
- CHAPTER XV-I PHOTOGRAPH STALIN
- CHAPTER XVI-THE LECTURE CIRCUIT
- CHAPTER XVII-THE FLYING FLITGUN
- CHAPTER XVIII-WAR AT SEA
- CHAPTER XIX-IN THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
- CHAPTER XX-I GO ON A BOMBING RAID
- CHAPTER XXI-âSUNNY ITALYâ
- CHAPTER XXII-THE FORGOTTEN FRONT
- CHAPTER XXIII-âWE DIDNâT KNOW, WE DIDNâT KNOWâ
- CHAPTER XXIV-THE BIRTH OF TWIN NATIONS
- CHAPTER XXV-THE LAST DAYS OF GANDHI
- CHAPTER XXVI-ON A ROCKY CONNECTICUT HILL
- CHAPTER XXVII-LAND OF DARKNESS AND DIAMONDS
- CHAPTER XXVIII-GUERRILLA WARFARE IN KOREA
- CHAPTER XXIX-NIM CHURL-JIN
- CHAPTER XXX-MY MYSTERIOUS MALADY
- CHAPTER XXXI-GIFT OF SCIENCE
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