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MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE Eyes on Russia . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. Quarto (280 x 195mm). 16 black and white photographs. Original tan cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, top edge red (soiled). Provenance : Charlie Chaplin (inscription from Bourke-White in black ink on endpaper). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO CHARLIE CHAPLIN, INSCRIBED BY BOURKE-WHITE: 'To Charlie Chaplin with my admiration Margaret Bourke-White'. An exceptional association copy: socialism was a key component of both artists' world view. 'Following her Russian visit Bourke-White demonstrated that she had absorbed the lessons of Rodchenko and the magazine USSR in Construction in her book Eye on Russia ... she naturally utilized the heightened Soviet style' ( The Photobook , vol. I, p.123).