Margaret Bourke-White. Beneath a “No Beer Sold to Indians” sign, a woman tossed back a drink. 1936. Sign of the times: The signs shown behind the drinking woman highlight the discrimination faced by Native Americans in 1936, an the country's support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The first issue of LIFE magazine was published on November 23, 1936. Photographer Margaret Bourke-White had been dispatched to the Northwest to photograph the multimillion dollar projects of the Columbia River Basin. What the editors expected were construction pictures as only Bourke-White can take them. What the editors got was a human document of American frontier life which, to them at least, was a revelation. Digital print on 10" x 7.5" glossy photo paper from the Getty Images archive. Margaret Bourke-White copyright Getty Images, in lower right corner. Fine condition (with small imperfections). Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering photojournalist whose insightful pictures of 1930s Russia, German industry, and the impact of the Depression and drought in the American midwest established her reputation. She took some of the first photographs inside German concentration camps at Erla and Buchenwald following the end of World War II and captured the last pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, in India. One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century along with other photographers such as: Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Walter Evans, Eugene Smith, Philippe Halsman, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Robert Doisneau, Josef Sudek, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, Steve McCurry, among many others.