Margaret Bourke-White retrospective at Museo di Roma in Trastevere

The Museo di Roma in Trastevere presents a major retrospective on Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), the pioneering American photojournalist. The exhibition is divided into eleven sections, tracing her career from industrial photography in the 1920s to her coverage of World War II, the liberation of Buchenwald, Gandhi in India, and apartheid in South Africa. Bourke-White was the first Western photographer allowed to photograph Stalin in the Soviet Union in 1930. She worked for Fortune and Life magazines, and her image of the Fort Peck Dam appeared on the first cover of Life in 1936. The show includes silver gelatin prints made thirty years ago and new color prints from 1956. Curator Alessandra Mauro emphasizes Bourke-White's deliberate self-construction and her willingness to show vulnerability during her Parkinson's disease, as documented by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The exhibition runs at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome.