Margaret bourke-white gandhi photographs
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Mahatma Gandhi Spinning
About this artwork
Status
- Currently Off View
Department
- Photography and Media
Artist
- Margaret Bourke-White
Title
- Mahatma Gandhi Spinning
Place
- New York City (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.
- Made 1946
Medium
- Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, upper left, sideways, in graphite: "582 [underlined] 2 [encircled] / Mce [?]"
Dimensions
- Image/paper: 37.1 × 49.5 cm (14 5/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Mount: 55.9 × 71.2 cm (22 1/16 × 28 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
- Photography and Media Purchase Fund
Reference Number
- 1957.134
Copyright
- © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Extended information about this artwork
1956. “The Photography of Margaret Bourke-White.” Exh. cat. the Art Institute of Chicago. p. 5.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “The Photography of Margaret Bourke-White,” May 15-July 1, 1956.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “T
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MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE | Mahatma Gandhi, The Spinner
Description
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Spinner
- With 'LIFE MAGAZINE TIME INC.' copyright/ reproduction stamps and further titled and dated 'MAHATMA GANDHI / "The Spinner" / 1946' in ink on reverse
- Gelatin silver print
- 7¼ x 9½ (18.4 x 24.1 cm.)
- Date of negative: 1946 Printed posthumously in 1980
Provenance
File print, LIFE Picture Service
Acquired from the above in a de-accession circa 1980sExhibited
Syracuse, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, School of Art, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Margaret Bourke-White: The Humanitarian Vision, 24 April – 9 September 1983, illustration p. 13 (another photograph from Collection of George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University)
New York, International Center for Photography, Bourke- White: A Retrospective, 4 March – 1 May, 1988 (another photograph)
New York, International Center for Photography, Bourke- White: A Retrospective, 4 March – 1 May, 1988 (another photograph)Literature
Life, vol. 21, no. 3, 15 July 1946
Life, vol. 24, no. 6, 9 July 1948
M. Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1963, illustration p. 276-77
The Best of Life, Time-Life Books, New York, 1973, i