From October 25, 2025 to February 8, 2026, the Chiostri di San Pietro in Reggio Emilia will host the exhibition Margaret Bourke-White. The Work 1930-1960, curated by Monica Poggi in collaboration with CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, dedicated to one of the most celebrated female photographers of the 20th century.
Through about 150 shots, the exhibition traces the work, the extraordinary existence and the extremely high photographic quality of Margaret Bourke-White, who was able to immortalize the complexity of human experience on the pages of the most important magazines, overcoming limits and stereotypes related to gender.
The central theme of her research, i.e., changes in the world, emerges clearly from the cover of the first issue of LIFE magazine, but also in the famous portraits of Stalin and Gandhi, in the reportages devoted to U.S. industry, and in the reports made during World War II in the Soviet Union, North Africa, Italy and Germany, where Margaret Bourke-White witnesses the entry of American troops into Berlin and documents the horrors of concentration camps.
From 1957, as Parkinson’s disease forced her to stop photographing, Bourke-White concentrated on writing her autobiography, Portrait of Myself, published in 1963. She would pass away in 1971, due to complications related to the disease.
During the exhibition period, a series of meetings open to the public with experts in the field is planned to explore the so-called American Century: a set of historical, cultural, ideological, economic and social phenomena that defined the 20th century and continue to significantly influence culture and in the events of the present.
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| In Reggio Emilia, starting this fall, a major exhibition on renowned photographer Margaret Bourke-White |
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