Object Details
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
Date
1945 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 19 1/4 × 15 1/16 inches (48.9 × 38.3 cm)
Mount (Matted): 27 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (71 × 56 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Object
Number
65.591
In March 1945, Margaret received permission to cover the Allied advance into Germany by way of the R(…)
In March 1945, Margaret received permission to cover the Allied advance into Germany by way of the Rhine with General Patton’s troops. By April, Patton’s troops entered Buchenwald, the first major concentration camp liberated by the Americans. Pictures taken in the camps made the world fully aware of Nazi Germany’s atrocities for the first time. (“Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist,” curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24 – June 7, 2015)
