The Real Role of the US in Soviet Industry Development | The Strange Alliance Part III

Margaret Bourke-White was the foremost woman war reporter.
She was to take pictures of Soviet Russia, its industry, its society, its prominent figures including Stalin, and some "rare specimens" never filmed before, like Stalin's mother in her distant Georgian village...

The pictures of the Kremlin meetings between Stalin and US Secretary Hopkins, that we presented in our last video, as well as many other Moscow shots in this series, were taken by the American reporter and first female war photo-reporter Margaret Bourke-White.

In 1941 she and her husband Erskine Caldwell were the only foreign journalists in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war. Margaret Bourke-White's photos were seen by millions in the West and became famous after publication in Life Magazine.

Yet it was touch and go, as we’ll see from the behind the scenes story.

We'll have a look at how this internationally acclaimed reporter, largely unknown today, covered the Soviet Union during key periods of its history. And we'll also see how, for over thirty years, she made photographic history: as the first photographer to see the artistic and storytelling possibilities in American industry, as the first to write social criticism with a lens, and as the most distinguished and venturesome foreign correspondent-with-a-camera to report wars, politics and social and political revolution on three continents.

By Anton Joly,
Brad Golding and
Pamela Brisley

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