Past in Perspective.

The picture captures Faiz's words 'This sacred morning light, this dawn, bearing the wounds of night/ Surely, this is not the morning we waited

for...' than any other attempt could have

Margaret Bourke-White was born in 1904, in the Bronx, New York. Her interest in photography began as a young girl, when she would pretend to take photographs with an empty cigar box. After studying photography at Columbia University, she was recruited by Henry R. Luce, founder publisher of Time magazine, as a staff photographer for his new business magazine, Fortune.

It was the year 1946 after conclusion of WWII that she was sent by Life, magazine she was working for then, to cover the emerging nations of India and Pakistan...