Title from caption on object: “Gandhi as Pictured by Bourke-White”

April 1946, printed later

Margaret Bourke-White

Artist, American, 1904 - 1971

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.3 × 24.3 cm (7 3/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.5 × 25.4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.383

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along left edge printed in image: (NY29-Aug. 27)--GANDHI AS PICTURED BY BOURKE-WHITE--This is a photograph / taken in 1946 of Mahatma Gandhi by Margaret Bourke-White, internationally / known photographer who died Friday in Stamford. Conn. One of the original / Life staff photographers, she was responsible for the first cover story / and photograph for that magazine in 1936. (Life photo via AP Wirephoto) / (See AP AAA Wire Story) (1sk61730Life) MO MO 1971; on verso, top right stamped in red ink perpendicular: AUG 30 1971; lower left stamped in red ink inverted: DEAD FILE

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