Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS THE MOST celebrated of all these women was Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer for Life magazine who died in 1971. She was on assignment in Russia after the Revolution, at Buchenwald when General Patton liberated it, and nearby when Gandhi was assasinated. Unlike almost every other woman photographer, she does not focus primarily on people. A whole series depicts powerful, moving machines. Her portraits all seem calculated to swallow you with merciless eyes that don't see and make you shudder in pain . . . "The living dead of Buchenwald;" "Gold miners, Nos. 1139 & 5122, Johannesburg...
...MARGARET F. MARAMARCO
VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS MEN AND FAIR WOMEN by JULIA MARGARET CAMERON 120 pages. David R. Godine...
...Julia Margaret Cameron was a Victorian of great eccentricity, some means and considerable connections. She was born the year of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and did not take a picture until 1864, when her daughter and son-in-law gave her one of the earliest models, which consisted of two wooden boxes, one sliding inside the other. "It may amuse, Mother, to try to photograph," they wrote her fondly. Little did they guess. At first Mother could hardly tell the difference between treacle and collodion, the sticky fluid used to coat her glass negatives...
...consideration." Up to a point, perhaps to middle-management levels, this tactic may prove effective. But to reach the highest levels of business, a woman must clearly and comfortably accept the fact that she is a woman, according to two alumnae of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration: Margaret Hennig, 33, and Anne Jardim, 37. They are so convinced that women must take their own route to the executive suite that they have set up at Simmons College in Boston the nation's first graduate program in management at a woman's school. Beginning next September, they...