Curator: Oliva María Rubio.
Nº of works: 154 vintage photographs, 14 original letters, y 10 originals LIFE magazines.
Contact: Ana Berruguete.
Catalogue: published by La Fábrica.
Exhibition co-produced by: Fotomuseum Den Haag, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY and La Fábrica, Madrid, and celebrated also at -Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munchen
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) is one of the first women photojournalists in the History of Photography. She was a woman that broke social conventions and was able to get to places where women were not allowed. From the very beginning of her career in Cleveland in 1927-1929, where she photographed smoky chimneys and burning furnaces, she were able to be in the right moment and right place and to become a witness of her time.
The exhibition Margaret Bourke-White. Moments of History aims to focus in the work of a photographer that enjoyed and was thrilled with every new job. It presents mainly the photographs she did in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain and Italy in the 30´s and 40´s of the XXth Century. Also the famous reportages for the Easter Airlines or the Chrysler Corporation are included. A selection of issues from Fortune and Life where she published her reportages and her correspondence and letters with famous names from the arts and politics, complementing the images.
