February 12, 2012
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.

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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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Read more about photographer Esther Bubley on wikipedia. Images are sourced from MuseumSyndicate.com

7 comments:

  1. Amazing photos!
    xx

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  2. Love the photos. I love the relaxed, "un-staged", un scripted look about them My favorite is the one of the man and lady on the bench with the Capitol building in the background. Great!

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    1. Isn't that one wonderful? I think these were friends or acquaintances of hers. If you go the source link these people are in numerous other photos on different occasions.

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  3. Take me there !!! lovely photos and times
    amelia

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  4. Yeah. Such an amazing collection of beautiful vintage pictures. I always like to see old vintage photographs in black and white display.

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  5. What a great collection and a great story! I love all the old LIFE photos that are currently doing the rounds, it's so interesting to see real life in the past.

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  6. Great pictures! I'm always amazed at shots of ordinary women from the 1940s who somehow manage to look so glamorous while doing the most mundane things (waiting in line at the cafeteria or the bus station? I'm jealous / inspired to step it up a notch!) thanks for sharing!

    Christine

    ps - love your shop & blog by the way!

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