Bourke-White, Margaret
American (1904-1971)

TITLE ON OBJECT: At the time of the Louisville flood
PUBLISHED TITLE: Flood Victims, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

1937
gelatin silver print
25.4 x 33.8 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 11376
66:0079:0008

NON-GEH NUMBER: 87

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Callahan, Sean, ed. --The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White.-- Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. p. 136-137.//
Silverman, Jonathan. --For the World to See: The Life of Margaret Bourke-White.-- New York: The Viking Press, 1983. pg. 124.//
Dugan, Ellen, ed. --Picturing the South; 1860 to the Present.-- San Francisco: Chronicle Books/High Museum of Art, 1996. p. 124.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 592.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Photography in the Twentieth Century", Canada, ONT, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, February 16 - April 2, 1967.//
"The Automobile and Culture", US, CA, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, July 21, 1984 - January 6, 1985.//
"Das Automobil in der Kunst 1886-1986", Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst August 9 - October 5, 1986.//
"Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, June 28 - September 17, 1989. (Traveled).//
"Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present", US, GA, Atlanta, High Museum of Art - Folk Art & Photography Galler June 15 - September 14, 1996.//
"Insight: Women's Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection", Germany, Cologne, RÖmisch-Germanisches Museum, September 11 - November 1, 1998.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "At the time of the Louisville Flood" "87 (circled)" (rubberstamp) "A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph"

NOTES: Cataloged Fall 1982, updated 5/88, DZ. Video disc frame reference #V29027. Alternate title from --For the World to See: The Life of Margaret Bourke-White--.

SUBJECTS:
people, waiting
architecture, billboard