Details
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
The Bridge, Russia, 1930
gelatin silver print, mounted on original board
variously numbered and annotated in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet 13 x 9½ in. (33.1 x 24.2 cm.)
mount 17¼ x 12⅜ in. (43.9 x 31.5 cm.)

Literature:
Sean Callahan (ed.), The Photographs of Margaret Bourke–White, Bonanza Books, New York, 1972, p. 70.
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Lot Essay



Although the grand multiple-arc bridge in Bourke-White's image was the largest ever attempted in the country, the Russians destroyed it completely in anticipation of the Germans advancement in the summer of 1941.

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