Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Friday, June 14, 2013

Margaret Bourke-White


Despite the magnificent accomplishhments of Margaret Bourke-White,
the italicized Art Daily text surrounding the image is the most
under-stated description of an A.D. photograph I have ever seen.

Why?
The words below the image duplicate the first paragraph of Margaret's Wikipedia page

No text is necessary to interpret the words within this profound 1937 photograph
vis-a-vis the people standing in line and the family in the car.


On a day like today,
American photographer and journalist Margaret Bourke-White was born



Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971)
was an American documentary photographer.

She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures
of Soviet industry...and the first woman permitted to work in combat zones.

She was the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine,
where her photograph appeared on the first cover

In this image: Kentucky Flood by Margaret Bourke-White.





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