# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-bourke-white
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:57.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-bourke-white"
name: "Margaret Bourke-White"
slug: "margaret-bourke-white"
description: "Margaret Bourke-White was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, representing corporate clients and highlighting the success of industrial capitalism with black and white images of steel factories and skyscrapers. In 1930, she became the first foreign photographer granted official access to document industrial sites in the Soviet Union during the first five-year plan. In 1933, she was commissioned to create the NBC photomural, a monumental photomural about radio for its rotunda at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, then considered the largest photomural in the world. The success of her corporate commissions led her to work at Fortune magazine in the 1930s. She took the photograph of the construction of Fort Peck Dam that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine."
tagline: "American photographer (1904-1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margaret_Bourke-White_1955.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1904-06-14"
deathDate: "1971-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.36
  momentum:             14.67469879518072
  historical:           23.633892
  currentAttention:     81.52610441767068
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1862642/"
    handle:    "nm1862642"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump