Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was the sophisticated, and globetrotting personification of Life magazine during it's heyday, and one of the most respected photographers of her generation. This is a collection of 83 of the artist's earliest works that allows us a glimpse of her as she learned her craft. In looking at Bourke-White's photographs from her student days and following the scope of her career in photojournalism until her death, it is difficult to believe that all of this was the work a single person. There is a consistent strain throughout her career that can best be described as power . Each picture has this vusal stranth, whether a waterfall or the dramatic incandescent flow of molten steel in a darkened mill. Added to other aspects of her photographic art was her personal will. She established photojournalism standards that became a great gift to journalists of the twentieth century. All of this from Bourke-White, a tiny woman, but a giant among her fellow photojournalists. Her images burned into the memory of Americans for decades of life. This book reveals the foundation of her career. -- Robert J. Doherty , Former Director, George Eastman House Ronald E. Ostman is a professor in the Department of Communications at Cornell University. Harry Littell is a photographer, an artist, and a teacher at Tompkins Cortland Community College, in Dryden, New York.