Margaret Bourke-White

Known for: industrial photography and WWII photojournalism for Life

Margaret Bourke-White was among the first staff photographers for Fortune and later Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the inaugural cover in 1936. She was the first Western photographer permitted to document Soviet industrial development, and the first female war correspondent accredited by the U.S. Army during World War II. She survived a helicopter crash in Korea, a torpedo sinking in the Atlantic, and the early stages of Parkinson's disease before her death in 1971.