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"Margaret Bourke-White, the [twentieth] century's most celebrated photojournalist, epitomized the dynamic spirit of her age and led a liberated life that was decades ahead of its time," wrote People contributor Eric Levin in a review of a 1988 retrospective of the photographers works. "She made her own myth and in the process made her profession glamorous." Bourke-White's biographer, Vicki Goldberg noted in her Margaret Bourke-White that the woman "became a historic figure while she was still making history." Goldberg further elaborated: "Her name, face, and photographs were known to millions, Hollywood made movies loosely based on her exploits. . . . A pioneer, she always seemed to be first: the first one to do it, and then the first in her field." Bourke-White took on the male-dominated field of photography and rose to the very top of its ranks. "She dared to become an industrial photographer and a photojournalist at a time when men thought they had exclusive rights to those titles," wrote Goldberg.
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