Artist Monograph

Margaret Bourke-White, American

American, 1904–1971

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Photography	44	63.8%
Other Media	25	36.2%

Production by Decade

1920s

1930s

1940s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	5	7.2%
Medium (30–100 cm)	64	92.8%

Range: 24.0 cm → 83.6 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1941	2
1942	25
1954	1
1959	3
1964	2
1974	29
2001	2
2016	2
2019	1
2026	2

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 69 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Garden of Mrs. F. F. Prentis, Cleveland Photograph Acc. 163.1974	1920s	Gelatin silver print	12 × 9 3/4" (30.5 × 24.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
The Towering Smokestacks of the Otis Steel Co., Cleveland Photograph Acc. 45.1964	1927-28	Gelatin silver print	13 1/8 × 7 5/16" (33.4 × 18.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Cleveland Terminal Tower Photograph Acc. 145.1974	c. 1928	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 10" (33.7 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
From The Terminal Tower, Cleveland Photograph Acc. 146.1974	c. 1928	Gelatin silver print	13 × 9 1/4" (33.0 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Untitled Photograph Acc. 162.1974	1929	Gelatin silver print	13 × 10" (33.0 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of James N. Rosenberg
A Generator Shell, Dnieperstroi Photograph Acc. 154.1974	1930	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 9 1/4" (33.7 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Blast Furnaces, Ford Motor Company Photograph Acc. 151.1974	c. 1930	Gelatin silver print	9 × 13 1/4" (22.9 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Brazilian Clipper Photograph Acc. 153.1974	c. 1930	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 9 1/4" (33.7 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx Photograph Acc. 1634.2001	1930	Gelatin silver print	10 5/16 × 8 7/16" (26.2 × 21.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of James N. Rosenberg, by exchange
Electric Furnace, Ludlum Steel Co., Dunkirk, New York Photograph Acc. 150.1974	c. 1930	Gelatin silver print	12 3/4 × 10" (32.4 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Iron Puddler, Red October Rolling Mills, Stalingrad Photograph Acc. 155.1974	1930	Gelatin silver print	12 1/2 × 8 3/4" (31.8 × 22.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Untitled Photograph Acc. 1633.2001	February 1931	Gelatin silver print	13 3/16 × 9 3/16" (33.5 × 23.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of James N. Rosenberg, by exchange
Chrysler Corporation Photograph Acc. 149.1974	1932	Gelatin silver print	12 7/8 × 9" (32.7 × 22.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of James N. Rosenberg
George Washington Bridge, New York Photograph Acc. 30.2026	1933	Gelatin silver print	13 3/8 × 8 3/4" (34 × 22.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Untitled Photograph Acc. 229.1954	c. 1933	Gelatin silver print	13 1/8 × 9 3/16" (33.4 × 23.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
Coke Pile at Aluminum Reduction Works, Aluminum Co. of America Photograph Acc. 464.1941	1934	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 6 3/4" (24.1 × 17.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Fortune Magazine
New York Skyline Photograph Acc. 147.1974	1934	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 13 1/4" (24.2 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Ornamental Gargoyle, Chrysler Building Photograph Acc. 148.1974	1934	Gelatin silver print	12 × 8 3/8" (30.5 × 21.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Photographs of U.S.S.R Photograph Acc. 393.1942.1-24	1934	Portfolio of 24 Photogravures	each 9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
A Priest Photograph Acc. 393.1942.6	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
At the Circus Photograph Acc. 393.1942.19	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
At the Lathe "Hammer and Sickle" Factory: Moscow Photograph Acc. 393.1942.9	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Bolshevic Babies in the Nursery: Amo Automobile Factory Photograph Acc. 393.1942.20	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Borscht Photograph Acc. 393.1942.16	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Chain Belt Movement: Machine Dance Moscow Ballet School Photograph Acc. 393.1942.11	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Col. Hugh L. Cooper: (Chief Consulting Engineer at Dnieprostroi) Photograph Acc. 393.1942.1	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin Photograph Acc. 393.1942.12	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
For the Iron Mine Foundations: Magnet Mountain Photograph Acc. 393.1942.4	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13 1/16" (23.5 × 33.1cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Kremlin: Moscow Photograph Acc. 393.1942.22	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Loom Photograph Acc. 396.2016	c. 1935	Gelatin silver print	9 × 12 3/4" (22.9 × 32.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Robert B. Menschel
Medical Students: Tiflis Photograph Acc. 393.1942.17	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Mtskhet in the Caucasus: Ancient Capital of Georgia Photograph Acc. 393.1942.23	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
On the Edge of Asia, Village of Magnetnaya: Urals Photograph Acc. 393.1942.21	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Rosenbaum Grain Elevators, Chicago, IL Photograph Acc. 31.2026	c. 1935	Gelatin silver print	13 3/8 × 9 1/4" (34 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Semionova: Premiére Ballerina, Great Theatre: Moscow Photograph Acc. 393.1942.18	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Shock Brigadier Photograph Acc. 393.1942.8	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Sierra Madre Mountains, California Photograph Acc. 138.1974	1935	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 13 1/4" (24.5 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Soviet Serenade Photograph Acc. 393.1942.5	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Stalin's Great Aunt Photograph Acc. 393.1942.13	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Steel Worker: Magnitogorsk Photograph Acc. 393.1942.3	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Street Car Conductor: Moscow Photograph Acc. 393.1942.10	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
The Steppe: Ukraine Photograph Acc. 393.1942.24	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
The World's Largest Blast Furnace Magnitogorsk: Ural Mountains Photograph Acc. 393.1942.2	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Tovarisch Mikhail: Bricklayer Photograph Acc. 393.1942.7	1935	Photogravure	9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Untitled Photograph Acc. 397.2016	c. 1935	Gelatin silver print	13 3/16 × 9 1/8" (33.5 × 23.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Robert B. Menschel
Village School, Kolomna: Volga Region Photograph Acc. 393.1942.15	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Waiting the Turn: Children's Clinic: Moscow Photograph Acc. 393.1942.14	1935	Photogravure	13 1/16 × 9 1/4" (33.1 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Clinton, Louisiana Photograph Acc. 140.1974	1936	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 10" (33.7 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
College Grove, Tennessee Photograph Acc. 142.1974	1936	Gelatin silver print	12 1/4 × 6" (31.2 × 15.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Photograph Acc. 143.1974	1936	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 10" (33.7 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Elbow Creek, Arkansas Photograph Acc. 139.1974	1936	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 9 1/2" (33.6 × 24.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Fort Peck Dam, Montana Photograph Acc. 47.1964	1936	Gelatin silver print	13 × 10 1/4" (33.0 × 26.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Life Magazine
Lansdale, Arkansas Photograph Acc. 141.1974	1936	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 10" (33.7 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Maiden Lane, Georgia Photograph Acc. 144.1974	1936	Gelatin silver print	10 × 13 1/4" (25.4 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Wind Tunnel Construction, Fort Peck Dam, Montana Photograph Acc. 152.1974	1936	Gelatin silver print	13 × 10" (33.0 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Woman, Locket, Georgia Photograph Acc. 250.2019	1936	Gelatin silver print	13 × 9 3/4" (33 × 24.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci
At the Time of the Louisville Flood Photograph Acc. 137.1974	1937	Gelatin silver print	9 3/4 × 13 1/8" (24.7 × 33.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Eskimos, Coppermine, N.W.T., Canada Photograph Acc. 160.1974	c. 1937	Gelatin silver print	10 × 13 1/4" (25.4 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Father Joseph Turcotte, Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada Photograph Acc. 159.1974	c. 1937	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 10" (33.7 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Log Rafts, Canadian International Paper Company Photograph Acc. 161.1974	1937	Gelatin silver print	13 1/2 × 9 1/2" (34.3 × 24.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Capital Of Carpatho-Ukraine (Ceded to Hungary) Photograph Acc. 156.1974	c. 1938	Gelatin silver print	12 3/4 × 10" (32.4 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Carpatho-Ukraine, Village of Bolidan-Lush Photograph Acc. 157.1974	c. 1938	Gelatin silver print	10 × 13 1/4" (25.4 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Henlein's Parents, Reichennau, Sudeten Section of Czechoslovakia Photograph Acc. 435.1941	August 1938	Gelatin silver print	7 1/8 × 9 1/2" (18.1 × 24.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Fortune Magazine
School, Carpatho-Ukraine Photograph Acc. 158.1974	c. 1938	Gelatin silver print	10 × 13" (25.4 × 33.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
The Bohemian Forest Photograph Acc. 164.1974	1938	Gelatin silver print	13 × 10" (33.0 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Gaspé Peninsula Photograph Acc. 136.1974	c. 1940	Gelatin silver print	8 5/8 × 12 5/8" (21.9 × 32.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Ghandi Photograph Acc. 98.1959	1946	Gelatin silver print	7 3/8 × 9 7/16" (18.7 × 24.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of LIFE Magazine
Exodus, Pakistan Photograph Acc. 97.1959.2	1947	Gelatin silver print	29 13/16 × 32 15/16" (75.8 × 83.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of LIFE Magazine
Exodus, Pakistan Photograph Acc. 97.1959.1	1947	Gelatin silver print	11 × 10 3/4" (27.9 × 27.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of LIFE Magazine