Picturing the beloved country: Margaret Bourke-White, Life Magazine, and South Africa, 1949-1950

In 1949 and 1950, the pioneering female photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White spent five months in southern Africa, producing four photo-essays for Life, one of America's most widely read magazines. Two of the essays, which dealt with South Africa in particular, were Americans' visual intr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John Edwin Mason
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department 2012-01-01
Series:Kronos
Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902012000100008