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Margaret Bourke-White
Self-Portrait with Cameracirca 1933

Not on view
Sepia-toned full-length portrait photograph of a short-haired woman in a cream turtleneck and wide-leg trousers standing behind a large-format camera on a wooden tripod

Margaret Bourke-White, Self-Portrait with Camera, circa 1933, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Margaret Bourke-White
United States, 1906-1971
Title
Self-Portrait with Camera
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1933
Medium
Gelatin-silver print, toned
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (33.66 × 23.18 cm) Primary support: 13 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (33.66 × 23.18 cm) Secondary support: 17 3/4 × 14 in. (45.09 × 35.56 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.18
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
  • Pohlmann, Ulrich, ed. Qui a peur des femmes photographes? 1839-1945. Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 2015.
  • Borzello, Frances. Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2016.
Copyright
© Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY