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Margaret Bourke-White
A DC-4 Flying over New York City, 1939
"A DC-4 Flying over New York City", 1939. © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White.
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Introduction
Taken by the visionary lens of Margaret Bourke-White, an undisputed pioneer of 20th-century photojournalism and a pivotal figure for Fortune and Life magazines, the image immortalizes an experimental prototype of the Douglas DC-4 (specifically the DC-4E model, identifiable by its triple tail assembly) as it glides over the dense and dizzying skyscraper jungle of Manhattan.
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