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51-664: Fortune Small Business was headquartered in New York City. It was sub-published under Fortune by Fortune Media Group Holdings, owned by the Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon. Although it was connected to Fortune , it was a joint venture by them at Time Inc. and American Express. FoSB was initially established in 1991 as Your Company . It was renamed in the November 1999 issue at the managing editor's request according to Hank Gilman. It explored how small business owners run their companies,

102-561: A paywall . Fortune Indonesia is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City and published for the Indonesian region. It is published by Fortune Media Group Holdings, a global business media company. FORTUNE Indonesia is available in print version every month as well as an online news portal. Currently, Fortune Indonesia is led by Editor-in-Chief Hendra Soeprajitno. Fortune regularly publishes ranked lists. In

153-485: A chair). She was "one of the most effective chroniclers" of the violence that erupted at the 1947 independence and partition of India and Pakistan, according to Somini Sengupta , who calls her photographs of the episode "gut-wrenching, and staring at them, you glimpse the photographer's undaunted desire to stare down horror". She recorded streets littered with corpses, dead victims with open eyes, and refugees with vacant eyes. "Bourke-White's photographs seem to scream on

204-404: A half-dollar-sized disk marking the spot where the molten metal had churned up in the ladle. The glory had withered. I couldn't understand it. "We're woefully underexposed," said Mr. Bemis. "Very woefully underexposed. That red light from the molten metal looks as though it's illuminating the whole place. But it's all heat and no light. No actinic value." She solved this problem by bringing along

255-470: A hidden beauty that was waiting to be discovered" In 1930, Bourke-White was hired to photograph the construction of what would become one of New York City's most elegant skyscrapers, the Chrysler Building . She was deeply inspired by the new structure and especially smitten by the massive eagle's-head figures projecting off the building. In her autobiography, Portrait of Myself , Bourke-White wrote, ‘On

306-485: A new style of magnesium flare , which produces white light, and having assistants hold the flares to light her scenes. Her abilities resulted in some of the best steel-factory photographs of that era, which earned her national attention. "To me... industrial forms were all the more beautiful because they were never designed to be beautiful. They had a simplicity of line that came from their direct application of purpose. Industry... had evolved an unconscious beauty – often

357-472: A photographic study of the rural campus for the school's newspaper, including photographs of her famed dormitory, Risley Hall . A year later, she moved from Ithaca, New York , to Cleveland , Ohio, where she started a commercial photography studio and began concentrating on architectural and industrial photography. One of Bourke-White's clients was Otis Steel Company. Her success was due to her skills with both people and her technique. Her experience at Otis

408-531: A prominent Cleveland businessman and high-tech industry founder, and her older sister, Ruth White, became well known for her work at the American Bar Association in Chicago, Ill. Roger Bourke White described their parents as " Free thinkers who were intensely interested in advancing themselves and humanity through personal achievement", attributing the success of their children in part to this quality. He

459-440: A steel mill. When she finally got permission, technical problems began. Black-and-white film in that era was sensitive to blue light, not the reds and oranges of hot steel (In the words of her collaborator, the ambient red-orange light had no "actinic value" ), so she could see the beauty, but the photographs were coming out all black. My singing stopped when I saw the films. I could scarcely recognize anything on them. Nothing but

510-410: A team of writers including James Agee , Archibald MacLeish , John Kenneth Galbraith , and Alfred Kazin , hired specifically for their writing abilities. The magazine became an important leg of Luce's media empire; after the successful launch of Time in 1923 and Fortune in 1930, Luce went on to launch Life in 1936 and Sports Illustrated in 1954. From its launch in 1930 to 1978, Fortune

561-399: A woman, Bourke-White secured a recommendation from Fortune magazine , her principal employer at the time, and opened her studio shortly thereafter. She hired John Vassos to design the deluxe interior, whose clean modern lines echoed the building's bold and graceful exterior. The Chrysler Building itself became the subject matter for Bourke-White, with the gargoyles a focal point (see). In

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612-464: Is "editor-in-chief". Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White ( / ˈ b ɜːr k / ; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer . She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan , was the first American female war photojournalist, and took the photograph (of

663-530: Is a good example. As she explains in Portrait of Myself , the Otis security people were reluctant to let her shoot for many reasons. Firstly, steel making was a defense industry, so they wanted to be sure national security was not endangered. Second, she was a woman, and in those days, people wondered if a woman and her delicate cameras could stand up to the intense heat, hazard, and generally dirty and gritty conditions inside

714-487: Is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City . It is published by Fortune Media Group Holdings, a global business media company. The publication was founded by Henry Luce in 1929. The magazine competes with Forbes and Bloomberg Businessweek in the national business magazine category and distinguishes itself with long, in-depth feature articles. The magazine regularly publishes ranked lists including ranking companies by revenue such as in

765-699: The Fortune 500 that it has published annually since 1955, and in the Fortune Global 500 . The magazine is also known for its annual Fortune Investor's Guide . Fortune was founded by Time magazine co-founder Henry Luce in 1929, who declared it as "the Ideal Super-Class Magazine", a "distinguished and de luxe" publication "vividly portraying, interpreting and recording the Industrial Civilization". Briton Hadden , Luce's business partner,

816-538: The Dust Bowl . In the February 15, 1937, issue of Life magazine, her famous photograph of black flood-victims standing in front of a sign that declared, "World's Highest Standard of Living", showing a white family, was published. The photograph later would become the basis for the artwork of Curtis Mayfield 's 1975 album, There's No Place Like America Today . Bourke-White met the bestselling novelist Erskine Caldwell in

867-1056: The Mediterranean , strafed by the Luftwaffe , stranded on an Arctic island, bombarded in Moscow, and pulled out of the Chesapeake when her chopper crashed, was known to the Life staff as 'Maggie the Indestructible. ' " The incident in the Mediterranean refers to the sinking of the England-Africa bound British troopship SS Strathallan that she recorded in an article, "Women in Lifeboats", in Life , February 22, 1943. Though disliked by General Dwight D Eisenhower , she became friendly with his chauffeur/secretary, Irishwoman Kay Summersby , with whom she shared

918-686: The New Mexico Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in the collection of the Library of Congress . A 160-foot-long photomural she created for NBC in 1933, for the Rotunda in the broadcaster's Rockefeller Center headquarters, was destroyed in the 1950s. In 2014, when the Rotunda and Grand Staircase leading up to it were rebuilt, the photomural was faithfully recreated in digital form on

969-571: The human resources field, for example, it publishes a list of the Best Companies to Work For . Lists include companies ranked in order of gross revenue and business profile, as well as business leaders: There have been 20 top editors since Fortune was conceived in 1929. Following the elimination of the editor-in-chief role at Time Inc. in October 2013, the top editor's title was changed from "managing editor" to "editor" in 2014. The present title

1020-600: The 1930s' representative in the United States Postal Service 's Celebrate the Century series of commemorative postage stamps. She held the title of staff photographer at LIFE until 1940, but returned from 1941 to 1942, and again in 1945, after which she stayed through her semi-retirement in 1957 (which ended her photography for the magazine) and her full retirement in 1969. During the mid-1930s, Bourke-White, like Dorothea Lange , photographed drought victims of

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1122-622: The U.S. Army in Italy and later in Germany. She repeatedly came under fire in Italy in areas of fierce fighting. On January 22, 1943, Major Rudolph Emil Flack piloted the lead aircraft with Margaret Bourke-White (the first female photographer/writer to fly on a combat mission) aboard his 414th Bombardment Squadron B-17F and bombed the El Aouina Airdrome in Tunis, Tunisia. "The woman who had been torpedoed in

1173-526: The U.S.A. (1941) about industrialization in the United States. She lived with Caldwell for several years before they married in 1939. They traveled to Europe to record how Germany, Austria , and Czechoslovakia were faring under Nazism. Bourke-White was "the first Western professional photographer permitted into the Soviet Union". She travelled there in consecutive summers from 1930 to 1932 to document

1224-601: The USSR. Her photographs were first published in Fortune magazine in 1931 under the title Eyes on Russia , and then as a book with the same name by Simon and Schuster . These photos additionally became "a six-part series in The New York Times (1932), a deluxe photo portfolio (1934), and a set of photomurals for the Soviet consulate in New York (1934). Still other photographs circulated in exhibitions, books, and periodicals around

1275-591: The brutality she had witnessed during and after the war. The editor of a collection of Bourke-White's photographs wrote: "To many who got in the way of a Bourke-White photograph—and that included not just bureaucrats and functionaries but professional colleagues like assistants, reporters, and other photographers—she was regarded as imperious, calculating, and insensitive." Bourke-White is known equally well in both India and Pakistan for her photographs of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar at his home Rajgriha, Dadar in Mumbai on

1326-950: The construction of Fort Peck Dam ) that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. Margaret Bourke-White, born Margaret White in the Bronx , New York, was the daughter of Joseph White, a non-practicing Jew whose father came from Poland , and Minnie Bourke, who was of Irish Catholic descent. She grew up in Middlesex , New Jersey (the Joseph and Minnie White House in Middlesex ), and graduated from Plainfield High School in Union County . From her naturalist father, an engineer and inventor, she claimed to have learned perfectionism; from her "resourceful homemaker" mother, she claimed to have developed “an unapologetic desire for self-improvement." Her younger brother, Roger Bourke White , became

1377-455: The construction of the Fort Peck Dam featured in Life ' s first issue, dated November 23, 1936, including the cover. Though Bourke-White titled the photo, New Deal, Montana: Fort Peck Dam , "it is actually a photo of the spillway located three miles east of the dam", according to a United States Army Corps of Engineers webpage. This cover photograph became such a favorite that it was

1428-588: The couple divorced two years later. Margaret White added her mother's surname, "Bourke", to her name in 1927 and hyphenated it. Bourke-White and novelist Erskine Caldwell were married from 1939 to their divorce in 1942. In 1971 she died at Stamford Hospital in Stamford , Connecticut, aged 67, from Parkinson's disease. Photographs by Bourke-White are in the Brooklyn Museum , the Cleveland Museum of Art ,

1479-630: The death of her father. She transferred colleges several times, attending the University of Michigan (where she was a photographer at the Michiganensian and became a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority), Purdue University in Indiana , and Western Reserve University in Cleveland , Ohio. Bourke-White ultimately graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927, leaving behind

1530-539: The economy with added graphs, charts, and tables, as well as the addition of articles on topics such as executive life and social issues connected to the world of business, including the effectiveness of public schools and on homelessness. During the years when Time Warner owned Time Inc., Fortune articles (as well as those from Money magazine) were hosted at CNNMoney.com . In June 2014, after Time Inc. spun off from its corporate parent, Fortune launched its own website at Fortune.com. On November 26, 2017, it

1581-418: The first Five-Year Plan . While in the USSR, she photographed Joseph Stalin , as well as making portraits of Stalin's mother and great-aunt when visiting Georgia . She also took portraits of other famous people in the Soviet Union, such as Karl Radek , Sergei Eisenstein , and Hugh Cooper . She noted that the trips and work there required a lot of patience, and generally had mixed, yet positive impressions of

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1632-541: The first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II . In 1941 she traveled to the Soviet Union just as Germany broke its pact of non-aggression . She was the only foreign photographer in Moscow when German forces invaded. Taking refuge in the U.S. Embassy , she then captured the ensuing firestorms on camera. As the war progressed, she was attached to the U.S. Army Air Force in North Africa, then to

1683-558: The globe, especially in Soviet magazines and postcards of the early 1930s." Bourke-White returned to the Soviet Union in 1941 during the Second World War. With five cameras, 22 lenses, four developing tanks and 3,000 flashbulbs, her luggage weighed in total 600 pounds. The resulting body of work was published in a book titled Shooting the Russian War in 1942. Bourke-White was the first known female war correspondent , as well as

1734-432: The lifeboat. In the spring of 1945 she traveled throughout a collapsing Germany with Gen. George S. Patton . She arrived at Buchenwald , the notorious concentration camp , and later said, "Using a camera was almost a relief. It interposed a slight barrier between myself and the horror in front of me." After the war she produced a book entitled Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly , a project that helped her come to grips with

1785-400: The magazine must really have worthwhile content. In fact, there were 30,000 subscribers who had already signed up to receive that initial 184-page issue. By 1937, the number of subscribers had grown to 460,000, and the magazine had turned half million dollars in annual profit. At a time when business publications were little more than numbers and statistics printed in black and white, Fortune

1836-449: The mid-thirties. Caldwell specialized in writing about poor communities in the rural south, and he invited her to collaborate on a photojournalist expedition through the south, which produced the book You Have Seen Their Faces (1937). They collaborated on two more books North of the Danube (1939) a travelogue about Czechoslovakia under the specter of Nazi occupation and Say, Is This

1887-505: The occasion of a third impression of his book which was published in December 1940 as Thoughts on Pakistan (the book was republished in 1946 under the title India's Political What's What: Pakistan or Partition of India ). These photographs were published on the Life magazine cover. She also photographed M. K. Gandhi (at his spinning wheel) and Pakistan's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah (upright in

1938-451: The page", Sengupta wrote. Sixty-six of Bourke-White's photographs of the partition violence featured in a 2006 reissue of Khushwant Singh 's 1956 novel about the disruption, Train to Pakistan . In connection with the reissue, many of the photographs in the book were displayed at "the posh shopping center Khan Market " in Delhi , India. "More astonishing than the images blown up large as life

1989-441: The sixty-first floor, the workmen started building some curious structures which overhung 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue below. When I learned these were to be gargoyles à la Notre Dame , but made of stainless steel as more suitable for the twentieth century, I decided that here would be my new studio. There was no place in the world that I would accept as a substitute.’ When the building's management initially refused to rent to

2040-481: The summer of 1929 Bourke-White accepted a job as associate editor and staff photographer for the new business-themed magazine Henry Luce was starting in the fall, Fortune magazine - a position she held until 1935. In 1930 she became the first Western photographer allowed to enter the Soviet Union. When Luce began his third magazine, the oversized, photograph-centered Life magazine, in 1936, he hired her as its first female photojournalist. Her photographs of

2091-441: The technologies they use and where they spend time out of the office. FSB published lists which highlighted the companies, trends and entrepreneurs that would make headlines in the year ahead. In 2007, there was approximately a 30% decrease in revenues. The magazine's failure to move to digital formats as print media became less popular, and a lack of advertising, contributed to this decline. The magazine began downsizing in 2008, and

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2142-412: Was Luce, managing editor Parker Lloyd-Smith, and art director Thomas Maitland Cleland . Single copies of the first issue cost US$ 1 (equivalent to $ 18 in 2023). An urban legend says that Cleland mocked up the cover of the first issue with the $ 1 price because no one had yet decided how much to charge; the magazine was printed before anyone realized it, and when people saw it for sale, they thought that

2193-526: Was an oversized 11" × 14", using creamy heavy paper, and art on a cover printed by a special process. Fortune was also noted for its photography, featuring the work of Margaret Bourke-White , Ansel Adams , and others. Walker Evans served as its photography editor from 1945 to 1965. During the Great Depression, the magazine developed a reputation for its social conscience , for Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White 's color photographs, and for

2244-601: Was announced that Meredith Corporation would acquire Time Inc. in a $ 2.8 billion deal. The acquisition was completed on January 31, 2018. On November 9, 2018, it was announced that Meredith Corporation was selling Fortune to Thai billionaire Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $ 150 million. Jiaravanon is affiliated with the Thailand-based conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group , which has holdings in agriculture, telecommunications, retail, pharmaceutical, and finance. Since March 4, 2020, access to Fortune.com has been restricted by

2295-546: Was discontinued in 2009. Fortune Small Business was a limited publication between 2004 and 2009. During this time, the content included a section called "Features" which was tailored towards culture, innovation and the economy. In its early years, features included developments in health, infrastructure, technology and leadership. Another section of the publication was "Start-Up" which was dedicated to innovative small businesses. Early reports within FSB included "Intuit", which described

2346-693: Was not enthusiastic about the idea – which Luce originally thought to title Power – but Luce went forward with it after Hadden's sudden death on February 27, 1929. In late October 1929, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the onset of the Great Depression . In a memo to the Time Inc. board in November 1929, Luce wrote: "We will not be over-optimistic. We will recognize that this business slump may last as long as an entire year." The publication made its official debut in February 1930. Its editor

2397-450: Was not surprised at his sister Margaret's success, saying "[she] was not unfriendly or aloof". Margaret's interest in photography began as a hobby in her youth, supported by her father's enthusiasm for cameras. Despite her interest, in 1922, she began studying herpetology at Columbia University , only to have her interest in photography strengthened after studying under Clarence White (no relation). She left after one semester, following

2448-461: Was published in 1963 and became a bestseller, but she grew increasingly infirm and isolated in her home in Darien , Connecticut. A pension plan set up in the 1950s, "though generous for that time", no longer covered her health-care costs. She also suffered financially from her personal generosity and from "less-than-responsible attendant care". In 1924, during her studies, she married Everett Chapman, but

2499-402: Was published monthly. In January 1978, it began publishing biweekly. In October 2009, citing declining advertising revenue and circulation , Fortune began publishing every three weeks. As of 2018, Fortune is published 14 times a year. Marshall Loeb was named managing editor in 1986. During his tenure at Fortune , Loeb was credited with expanding the traditional focus on business and

2550-577: Was that there was no assignment and no picture that was unimportant to her. She also started the first photography laboratory at Life magazine. She served as a photographer for Life during Korean War of 1950–1953. In 1953, Bourke-White developed her first symptoms of Parkinson's disease . She was forced to slow her career to fight encroaching paralysis. In 1959 and 1961 she underwent several operations to treat her condition, which effectively ended her tremors but affected her speech. Bourke-White wrote an autobiography, Portrait of Myself , which

2601-574: Was the number of shoppers who seemed not to register them", Sengupta wrote. No memorial to the partition victims exists in India, according to Pramod Kapoor, head of Roli, the Indian publishing house coming out with the new book. She had a knack for being at the right place at the right time: she interviewed and photographed Mohandas K. Gandhi just a few hours before his assassination in 1948. Alfred Eisenstaedt , her friend and colleague, said one of her strengths

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