Margaret Bourke-White 1904-1971

warm-toned, with black border, mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, titled in an unidentified hand in pencil and with the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse, 1933

Other prints of this image:

Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself (New York, 1963), p. 75

Sean Callahan, The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White (Greenwich, 1972), p. 43

Stephen Bennett Phillips, Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design 1927-1936 (Washington, D. C.: The Phillips Collection, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 125

Constance Sullivan and Eugenia Parry Janis, Women Photographers (New York, 1990), pl. 56

This image was used in a Fortune magazine feature story on the Port of New York, appearing in the July 1939 issue.  Bourke-White recounted in her autobiography, 'The bridge was under construction then and breathtakingly beautiful, with no floor built yet but with the gossamerlike cables gracefully strung from bank to bank.  I had been waiting for just this phase of the construction, and it was my bad luck that it came in midwinter on a zero day. . . I spent the morning perched high over the ice-flecked Hudson River on the mighty cables, which on closer acquaintance, I found not to be gossamer at all but thick as tree trunks. . .' (Portrait of Myself, p. 87).