Esther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She worked for several agencies of the American government and her work also featu
Esther Bubley, self-portrait c. 1950
A student at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington DC, 1943
"An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar", photograph of a traditionally male job being done by a woman during World War II, by Esther Bubley, June 1943
Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. His images documented the ethnography of
Esther Bubley
…appeared on more than thirty covers of their journal The Child. In 1948, Bubley was hired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, along with Russell Lee, to document the social and economic impact of the railroad. Together they producing over 3000 negatives of daily life along the railroad. In 1949…
Lee, between 1935 and 1942
(L–R) John Vachon, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, and Roy Stryker, between 1937 and 1944
Lone Driller’s Water Break is a 1939 photograph by Russell Lee, taken as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography program. It depicts a worker drinking from a battered pan during the Texas Oil Boom in Kilgore, Texas — a snapshot of boomtown grit and improvisation.