Art + Design 
18 July 2019
Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam - Image 1 of 2
Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam - Image 2 of 2
Art + Design 
Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam - Image 1 of 2
Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam - Image 2 of 2
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Margaret Bourke-White 1904–1971

Fort Peck Dam

1936 / printed later
gelatin silver print on Baryta paper 10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
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This photograph was used for the cover of the first issue of Life magazine, November 23, 1936.
Stamped and signed, titled and dated to verso ‘Margaret Bourke-White Life Magazine 1936 Time Inc. #674 Fort Peck Dam - First Cover of Life’.
An example of this work is held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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The very secret of life for me...was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquillity. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

Margaret Bourke-White

This photograph by Margaret Bourke-White was used for the cover of the first issue of Life magazine in 1936.
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