Russia through the eyes of Margaret Berk-White (1931-1941): Magnitogorsk, 1931 year
Margaret Burke-White was born in the Bronx in 1904 year. The father is an engineer and inventor, a Jew. Mother is a housewife, half Irish, half English, Protestant. Margaret graduated from high school in New Jersey, entered Columbia University and became interested in photography for a lifetime. In 1930, Margaret Burke-White goes abroad - first to Germany, where she takes pictures of IG Farbenindustrie enterprises, and then to the Soviet Union. 1941, Burke White became the first in stories female war correspondent. This happened even before the United States entered the war - when Germany attacked the USSR, Margaret went to Moscow.
Her stay coincided with the violation of Germany non-aggression pact. She was the only foreign photographer who was present in Moscow during the German attack. Then she visited many fronts - North African, Italian, in France and Germany. Made an excellent report on the everyday life of the American bomber compound. Colleagues called Margaret Burke-White "The Enduring Maggie." She was not afraid of anything and did not consider herself a weak creature. The album of her military photos “Sleep well, Vaterland”, published in 1945, was widely known.
At the start of 50, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Career ended, began a long, exhausting and futile treatment. Margaret wrote an autobiographical book under the simple title “Self-portrait” (by the way, the picture above, in the flight overalls is also a self-portrait), but did not take pictures anymore and communicated with people less and less. She died in Connecticut in 1971 year.
1. Cyclopean statue in Magnitogorsk
2. View of Magnitogorsk
3. Concrete dam
4. Workers Magnitogorsk
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14. Factory assembly.
15. The woman is at the door of her house.
16. Sad songs at the wake
17. Local man in a cart with hay
18. Women and children lined up at the entrance to the store, where a meager selection of food awaits
19. Woman with a piece of meat
20. At the church in the Russian province
Her stay coincided with the violation of Germany non-aggression pact. She was the only foreign photographer who was present in Moscow during the German attack. Then she visited many fronts - North African, Italian, in France and Germany. Made an excellent report on the everyday life of the American bomber compound. Colleagues called Margaret Burke-White "The Enduring Maggie." She was not afraid of anything and did not consider herself a weak creature. The album of her military photos “Sleep well, Vaterland”, published in 1945, was widely known.
At the start of 50, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Career ended, began a long, exhausting and futile treatment. Margaret wrote an autobiographical book under the simple title “Self-portrait” (by the way, the picture above, in the flight overalls is also a self-portrait), but did not take pictures anymore and communicated with people less and less. She died in Connecticut in 1971 year.
1. Cyclopean statue in Magnitogorsk
2. View of Magnitogorsk
3. Concrete dam
4. Workers Magnitogorsk
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10.
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14. Factory assembly.
15. The woman is at the door of her house.
16. Sad songs at the wake
17. Local man in a cart with hay
18. Women and children lined up at the entrance to the store, where a meager selection of food awaits
19. Woman with a piece of meat
20. At the church in the Russian province
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