Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs by Ira Sarma

“…Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs: Clash of Narratives or Postmemory Project Memories of the Partition of India have, over the last decades, been constructed through a broad range of media, such as biographical memory, historiography, or literature. …”
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A “Russianesque Camera Artist”: Margaret Bourke-White’s American-Soviet Photography by Josie Johnson

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The Hands of <i>Fortune</i>: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression by Barnaby Haran

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The partition of India and photography by Ramona Kit Yeen Raj

“…This thesis argues that more research needs to be done through the interrogation of photographs Partition atrocities; as people in them have had their agency to depict their own experiences taken from them by the imposing gaze of commercialisation and the Western understanding of Partition by American photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. Furthermore, access of these photographs Partition atrocities were limited to the people affected before and after Partition as the Indian government censored their circulation in major newspapers such as Times of India. …”
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Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South by Jennifer Ritterhouse

“…Written from the perspective of a privileged and conflicted white southern liberal, Daniels' book appeared soon after Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's sensationalizing You Have Seen Their Faces (1937) and within days of Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of the South as "the Nation's no. 1 economic problem." …”
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Icons of photography : the 20th century / by Stepan, Peter, editor

“…Berenice Abbott -- Ansel Adams -- Robert Adams -- Diane Arbus -- Eugňe Atget -- Ellen Auerbach -- Richard Avedon -- Herbert Bayer -- Cecil Beaton -- Bernd and Hilla Becher -- Ilse Bing -- Werner Bischof -- Karl Blossfeldt -- Edouard Boubat -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Bill Brandt -- Brassa -̐- Manuel Alvarez Bravo -- Ren B̌urri -- Robert Capa -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Martn̕ Chambi -- Chargesheimer -- Imogen Cunningham -- John Deakin -- Robert Doisneau -- William Eggleston -- Alfred Eisenstaedt -- Ed van der Elsken -- Touhami Ennadre -- Hugo Erfurth -- Walker Evans -- Andreas Feininger -- Gisľe Freund -- Lee Friedlander -- Mario Giacomelli -- Ralph Gibson -- Nan Goldin -- Ernst Haas -- Robert Hũsser -- Heinz Hajek-Halke -- Lewis W. …”

Erskine Caldwell in Wartime Moscow, May – September 1941 by Olga Yu. Panova, Aleksandra S. Fisenko

“…Caldwell and the famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, who became his wife in 1939, arrived in the Soviet Union after their trip to China in May 1941, and thus started their acquaintance with the Soviet Union in Alma-Ata. …”
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