Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a pioneering photographer, a hang-with-the-big-boys righteous babe. Not only did she take amazing photographs throughout the 20th century, but she looks good in one, as the 1943 self-portrait here shows. (Courtesy of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection.)
No wonder Sally Matson likes playing Bourke-White. And this Wednesday, October 2, she’ll do just that at the Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury.
Matson’s one-woman show, titled “Margaret Bourke-White, Courageous Photographer,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s “First Wednesdays” lecture series. But don’t expect some dry, academic lecture. Matson becomes Bourke-White in what VHC calls a “living history” presentation.
She clearly has a yen for scrappy women (and who doesn’t, really?): Matson also performs as a godmother of the suffrage movement in a show called “Susan B. Anthony — the Invincible!”
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