She specialized in photographing ordinary people going about their ordinary lives. When she was a senior in high school, the first issue of LIFE magazine hit the newsstands and photographs depicting The Great Depression developed her passion in photo journalism. Esther Bubley was born in Wisconsin in 1921.


In 1951 she started freelancing for LIFE magazine and was one of the first women to successfully support herself as a photographer! Isn't that rad? To be inspired by something as a teen and then actually be living it within a couple decades, very cool.



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