Bourke-White, Margaret
American (1904-1971)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Steel Liner, Fort Peck Dam, Montana
PUBLISHED TITLE: One-fourth of the Missouri River will run through this steel "liner"
JOURNAL TITLE: --LIFE--, November 23, 1936

1936
gelatin silver print
37.3 x 49.4 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 20691
71:0155:0074

NON-GEH NUMBER: 674

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bourke-White, Margaret. --Portrait of Myself.-- New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. p. 114-145.//
Brown, Theodore M. --Margaret Bourke-White: Photojournalist.-- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum, 1972. pg. 61.//
Callahan, Sean, ed. --The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White.-- Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. p. 114-115.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 591.//

--Life--, Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 23, 1936).

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"The American Situation: The Camera's Century", US, NC, Chapel Hill, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, January 11 - February 23, 1976.//
"The Work Show", US, CA, San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, September 9 - November 11, 1978.//
"Masterpieces of the Art of Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, January 3 - December 31, 1989.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25, 1991 - March 22, 1992.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(rubberstamp) "Life Photo by Margaret Bourke-White" (in pencil) "674 (underlined)" "2nd" "37.3 x 49.3"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/88, DZ, updated 11/90, MMC.

SUBJECTS:
people, at work
architecture, dam