Margaret Bourke-White - Interview With India - 1950

Best known for her 1931 book, Eyes on Russia as well as her 1937 book, You Have Seen Their Faces (included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook, Vol 1) Farm Security Administration photographer Margaret Bourke White was sent on assignment by LIFE Magazine to document the birth of two new nations as the Indian subcontinent gained independence from Britain.

As well as photographing and interviewing the main political leaders, such as Ghandi (who she photographed a few hours before his assassination), in this powerful book, Bourke-White documents the complexities of decolonization.

She was "one of the most effective chroniclers" of the violence that erupted at the 1947 independence and partition of India and Pakistan, according to Somini Sengupta, who calls her photographs of the episode "gut-wrenching, and staring at them, you glimpse the photographer's undaunted desire to stare down horror"

Condition:
Very good first edition copy of the UK edition of Halfway to Freedom from 1950 (not the later edition published by the Travel Book Club). Very rare dust jacket included - torn and spine faded due to the sun. Two photo plates have small areas of damage where they were stuck together (see photos above). Original errata slip included. Please examine listing photos for condition.