Photojournalist

documented the construction of factories & skyscrapers in the late 1920s; spent years traveling the globe & documenting events from WWII including the liberation of buchenwald, the partitioning of India & Pakistan; photos of Gandhi 6 hours before his assassination, the Korean War, the rural south during the depression, the Dust Bowl Era, south African Apartheid & famous & ordinary people for Fortune & Life magazines; held numerous exhibitions of her photos; published approximately 11 books with 3 collaborations with Erskine Caldwell; first foreign photographer allowed to photograph pictures of Soviet industry; first female photographer at Life magazine & took its 1st cover photograph; 1st female allowed to work in combat zones in WWII; took iconic photos documenting important moments in history; her style was known as Perfectionism

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Category:
Documentary Photography

Completion Status:
yes

Patent Number:
N/A

Co-Inventor:
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