Margaret Bourke is most well known for being the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of the Soviet Industry and also the first female war correspondant. Essentially she is a photojournalist and documentary photographer, having documented some of the biggrst events of the 20th Century for LIFE Magazine but also is an architectural and commerical photographer. The main reason as to why I chose Margaret Bourke is because she is one of my biggest influences because of the way in which she broke boundaries for female photographers at the time and the sense of truth within her work. There is also a large comparison that can be made between her work and photojournalist godfather, Henri Cartier-Bresson's work making her a strong and inconic female figure within photojournalism and documentary photography.
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