Through about 150 photographs, the exhibition tells the work, the extraordinary life, and the very high quality of the shots by Maragaret Bourke-White, capable of narrating the complex human experience on the pages of widely circulated magazines, determinedly overcoming gender barriers and boundaries.

The transformations of the world, at the heart of Bourke-White's research, find a place on the cover of the first issue of the legendary magazine LIFE, can be seen in her iconic portraits of Stalin and Gandhi, in the reports on American industry, in the services carried out during the Second World War in the Soviet Union, North Africa, Italy, and Germany, where she documented the entry of US troops into Berlin and the horrors of concentration camps.

Forced to abandon photography due to Parkinson's disease, from 1957 Bourke-White dedicated herself to her autobiography, Portrait of Myself, published in 1963. She died in 1971 due to complications of the disease.

During the exhibition period, with a program of public meetings with the most important specialists in the field, the so-called American Century will be further explored, a set of historical, cultural, ideological, economic, and sociological characteristics that have marked the past century and still deeply influence the culture and events of the present.