Great QUOTES Aug. 21, 2014 ~ 233:132 The very secret of life for me... was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquillity. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance. ~ Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Portrait of Myself American documentary photographer. Best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent (and the first woman permitted to work in combat zones) and the first female photographer for Henry Luces Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She also was one of the most effective chroniclers of the violence that erupted at the independence and partition of India and Pakistan, according to Somini Sengupta, who calls her photographs of the episode gut-wrenching, and staring at them, you glimpse the photographers undaunted desire to stare down horror. She recorded streets littered with corpses, dead victims with open eyes, and refugees with vacant eyes. Bourke-Whites photographs seem to scream on the page, Sengupta wrote. The photographs were taken just two years after those Bourke-White took of the newly captured Buchenwald. She had a knack for being at the right place at the right time: she interviewed and photographed Mohandas K. Gandhi just a few hours before his assassination in 1948. Alfred Eisenstaedt, her friend and colleague, said one of her strengths was that there was no assignment and no picture that was unimportant to her. She also started the first photography laboratory at Life magazine. life.time/history/vultures-of-calcutta-the-gruesome-aftermath-of-indias-1946-hindu-muslim-riots/#1 ............................................. HELPING PEOPLE CHANGE Great LIFE ~ Applied Psychology Services, India. Careers | Education | Marriage | Parenting | Personality greatlifeindia.weebly .............................................. Good MORNING!
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