Let's talk today about a great woman, she is called the female fighter of photography, she is Margaret Burke White.
In the United States of the last century, industrial photography has always been the home of men, and when he was 8 years old, when White visited a factory with his father, he was shocked by the production scene of the factory's steel splashes, and since then, White has been fascinated by the beauty of industrial power.
In 1927, at the age of 23, White came to Cleveland, a great industrial city, and she began to try to shoot industrial photography, and those magnificent industrial photos made White famous in the industry for two or three years, becoming the most well-known industrial photographer in the industry. White has always believed that she should use her own lens to record the story behind the factory. In her view, behind such a great industrial achievement is the silent dedication of countless workers, under her photographic record, which ushered in the era of photographic prose.
At that time, Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union had been in a hostile situation, but White was specially allowed to enter the Soviet Union with his superb photography skills to shoot industrial construction. During this trip, White took more than 3,000 photographs, the earliest photographic records of the Soviet Union in the West. After the outbreak of World War II, White and his lover went to the Soviet Union again, outside Moscow, the German soldiers approached the city, the German army bombed the city of Moscow, many people fled, but White on the balcony of the hotel, with the camera recorded the picture of Moscow encountered German air raids, she did not flinch to record every historical moment.
In 1943, White, as the first female journalist in the United States to fight with the Air Force, wore a flying jacket and went to the battlefield to shoot. After the war, White went to India, recorded the bloodshed in the process of the India-Pakistani split with the camera, and completed the photo collection "On the Way to Freedom". After leaving India, White went to the front line again, this time arriving in South Africa, using the camera to record the ethnic struggle in South Africa and let the world know about South Africa that is changing dramatically.
However, it wasn't long before White stopped her photography career due to Parkinson's disease, but she didn't stop her life's struggle, she began to write articles for magazines, documented her life, and completed an autobiographical novel. White often said, "Only through one's own actions can one's life become complete, and at the end of your life, the work you do will highlight the value of your existence!" One day in August 1971, White drew the end to his great life.
