# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BuovfTTnlBi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16448350-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-03-05T18:24:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

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“The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand”.
#MargaretBourkeWhite herself however, was not the sort of woman to be led. 
The photographer collected firsts throughout her career: the first LIFE cover, the first Western photojournalist to document Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent.
Possessed of an indefatigable curiosity, there was little to come between Bourke-White and her camera; known as ‘Maggie the Indestructible’, she risked her life on several occasions so that her pictures could bear witness to the wider world. Analytical and unflinching, they all but take us by the hand.
Swipe through 👉 the gallery for the 1937 image which later inspired the artwork of a Curtis Mayfield LP; Bourke-White perched atop a Chrysler Building eagle and where she reputedly kept her pet alligators on her office balcony; that first LIFE cover of the Fort Peck Dam in 1936; German fire during the invasion of Moscow in 1941, with Bourke-White the only foreign photographer in town; an aerial view of a crowd gathering round a drowning victim in Brooklyn, 1952; Gandhi, who insisted Bourke-White  learn to spin before she took his portrait and finally, a portrait by her great friend Alfred Eisenstaedt, after her Parkinson’s diagnosis.
Follow our bio link for more pioneering female photographers as we mark #WomensHistoryMonth.
📷: Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images | gettyarchive 
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