Works by the legendary American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-
White are on show in Berlin. From the liberation of Nazi
concentration camps to the struggle against apartheid, the
fearless photographer captured it. It could be considered a
surreal footnote in cultural history. Just a few hundred meters
from Martin Gropius Bau, there on the ruins of Berlin's Anhalter
Bahnhof, American Margaret Bourke-White photographed emaciated
people for a report about survival in war-ravaged Germany in the
summer of 1945. In the images, civilians of the bombed-out city
clung to overcrowded railway carriages. They were scrambling to
get to the urban hinterland to exchange the last of their
belongings for food. The exhibition at Berlin's Martin Gropius
Bau encompasses photographs taken by Margaret Bourke-White in
the years between 1930 and 1945. Each picture is a testament to
the keen eye of the woman who assuredly scaled the male-
dominated ranks of the field of photojournalism in the mid-20th
century. Bourke-White had the kn