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Margaret Bourke was born.
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Margaret began to study photography as a hobby while a very young woman. Her father was somewhat of a camera lover and he exposed her to the wonders of the photographic lens as a youngster.
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She began her work as photographer while at Cornell University. After her graduation, she became delighted with the machine age, photographing the Chrysler Building in New York City.
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She was the female industrial photographer, getting her start in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Otis Steel Company around 1927.
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She was a forerunner in the newly emerging field of photojournalism, and shewas the first female to be hired as a photojournalism. She was the first photographer for Fortune magazine.
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She was the first western photographer allowed in the Sovient Union
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Henry Luce hired her as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine
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She was the first female to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II, and one of the first photographers to enter and document the death camps.
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In 1956, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's Diseasem which affects the way you move. She went though sugery which temporarily help her and let her return to work. It came back and she went though sugery again, which messed up her speech a little. In 1971 she fell and was confined to a hospital bed in Connecticut intill she died
