Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904, in the Bronx, NYC.
Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904, in the Bronx, New York City. Born to an engineer father and a homemaker mother, she developed an interest in the intersection of technology and art at a young age. Her educational path would see her hop through several universities before graduating with a degree in biology from Cornell, a foundation that fueled her curiosity and versatility in her later photojournalistic endeavors.